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England in Europe
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ISBN: 9781487514723 1442685956 1442640723 1487514727 9781442685956 9781442640726 1487513380 Year: 2017 Volume: 24 Publisher: Toronto ;Buffalo ;London University of Toronto Press

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"In England in Europe, Elizabeth Tyler focuses on two histories: the Encomium Emmae Reginae, written for Emma the wife of AEthelred 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 light on 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"--

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Emma, --- Aelfgifu, --- Edith, --- Encomium Emmae Reginae. --- Vie d'Edouard le Confesseur. --- Vie d'Edouard le Confesseur, by a Nun of Barking Abbey --- Vie d'Edouard --- Life of King Edward the Confessor --- Ici comence le romanz de Saint Edward rei et confessur --- Romanz de Saint Edward rei et confessur --- Al loënge le creatur coment cest' ovre et sa valur --- Al loenge le creatur comence cest ovre et sa valur ... --- Life of Edward the Confessor (Anglo-Norman poem) --- Life of Edward the Confessor, by a Nun of Barking --- Edward the Confessor (Anglo-Norman poem) --- Vie d'Edouard le Confesseur, by a Nun of Barking --- Vie saint Edward, rei et confesseur, par une Deu ancele de Berkinges --- Vie saint Edward, rei et confesseur --- Vie de S. Edward le Confesseur --- Vie de S. Edward le Confesseur, par Une religieuse de Barking --- Edouard (Anglo-Norman poem) --- Encomium Emmae Reginae, Richardi I Ducis Normannorum filiae --- Cnutonis regis gesta --- Kong Knuts handlinger --- Women --- Literary patrons --- Politics and literature --- European literature --- Queens --- Normans --- Literature --- Literature and politics --- Benefactors --- History --- English influences. --- Political aspects --- Femmes --- Mécènes de la littérature --- Politique et littérature --- Littérature européenne --- Reines --- Normands (Français) --- English influences --- Histoire --- Influence anglaise --- Encomium Emmae Reginae --- Vie d'Edouard le Confesseur --- History. --- Queens - Great Britain - Biography --- Women - England - History - Middle Ages, 500-1500 --- Literary patrons - England - History - To 1500 --- Politics and literature - History - To 1500 --- European literature - English influences --- Normans - Great Britain - Biography --- Femmes - Angleterre - Histoire - 500-1500 (Moyen Age) --- Mécènes de la littérature - Angleterre - Histoire - 500-1500 (Moyen Âge) --- Politique et littérature - Histoire - 500-1500 (Moyen Âge) --- Littérature européenne - Influence anglaise --- Reines - Grande-Bretagne - Biographies --- Normands (Français) - Grande-Bretagne - Biographies --- Emma regina --- Eduardus Confessor rex Anglorum --- Editha abb. Wiltoniensis --- Emma, - Queen, consort of Canute I, King of England, - -1052 --- Emma, - reine, épouse de Canut Ier, roi d'Angleterre, - -1052 --- Baldric of Dol --- England --- Goscelin --- Virgil --- Great Britain. --- England.


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Aelredi Rievallensis Vita Sancti Ædwardi regis et confessoris ; Anonymi Vita Sancti Ædwardi versifice
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ISBN: 9782503551821 2503551823 Year: 2017 Volume: 3A 7 Publisher: Turnhout : Brepols Publishers,

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The most popular biography of St. Edward the Confessor. Aelred of Rievaulx’s Vita sancti Ædwardi Regis et Confessoris was written on request of Laurence, abbot of Westminster, soon after the canonization of King Edward in 1161, and was presented to King Henry II on the occasion of the translation of the body of the saint on the 13th of October 1163. Preceded by a biography written by an anonymous author for Edward’s wife, Queen Edith, and by the clearly hagiographical biography written by the prior of Westminster, Osbert of Clare, in 1138, Aelred’s Vita enriched the hagiographical dossier of the saint with new miraculous episodes and was also endowed with strong political messages. It soon became the official biography of the saint and its fortune is witnessed not only by the number of manuscripts that contain the text, but also by the fact that all the successive biographies of the saint were directly or indirectly dependent on it. This first critical edition of the Vita provides a text based on the best manuscript witnesses together with the editio princeps of a versification of the Vita written by an anonymous poet few years later.

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