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England in Europe: English Royal Women and Literary Patronage, C.1000-C.1150
Contributor(s): Tyler, Elizabeth Muir (Author)
ISBN: 1442640723     ISBN-13: 9781442640726
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
OUR PRICE:   $107.35  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: April 2017
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BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- History | Europe - Medieval
- Literary Criticism | Medieval
Dewey: 942.019
LCCN: 2017303675
Series: Toronto Anglo-Saxon
Physical Information: 1.4" H x 6.3" W x 9.2" (1.80 lbs) 464 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - British Isles
- Chronological Period - Medieval (500-1453)
 
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Publisher Description:

In England in Europe, Elizabeth Tyler focuses on two histories: the Encomium Emmae Reginae, written for Emma the wife of the thelred II and Cnut, and The Life of King Edward, written for Edith the wife of Edward the Confessor.

Tyler offers a bold literary and historical analysis of both texts and reveals how the two queens actively engaged in the patronage of history-writing and poetry to exercise their royal authority. Tyler's innovative combination of attention to intertextuality and regard for social networks emphasizes the role of women at the centre of Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman court literature. In doing so, she argues that both Emma and Edith's negotiation of conquests and factionalism created powerful models of queenly patronage that were subsequently adopted by individuals such as Queen Margaret of Scotland, Countess Adela of Blois, Queen Edith/Matilda, and Queen Adeliza. England in Europe sheds new lighton the connections between English, French, and Flemish history-writing and poetry and illustrates the key role Anglo-Saxon literary culture played in European literature long after 1066.

Contributor Bio(s): Tyler, Elizabeth Muir: - Elizabeth M. Tyler is a professor of medieval literature in the Department of English and Related Literature and the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of York. She is a co-director of the Centre for Medieval Literature at the University of Southern Denmark and the University of York.