Encomium Emmae Reginae
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- Editor: Alistair Campbell, University of Cambridge
- Introduction by: Simon Keynes
- Date Published: September 1998
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521626552
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The Encomium Emmae Reginae is, as its title suggests, a political tract in praise of Queen Emma, daughter of Duke Richard I of Normandy, wife of King Ethelred the Unready from 1002 to 1016, and wife of the Danish conqueror King Cnut from 1017 to 1035. It is an important primary source that transports us into the heart of eleventh-century politics. This edition contains a new introduction that places the Encomium in the historical context in which it was written, and traces the career of Emma, a woman who was twice queen and who sought to preserve her position of power as queen-mother.
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"This reprint of the Encomium Emmae Reginae is most welcome. not only does it make an important eleventh-century source of English and women's history more readily available, but Simon Keynes' supplementary introduction provides a helpful and thorough discussion of the historical issues raised in this work." The Medieval Review
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- Date Published: September 1998
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521626552
- length: 268 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 153 x 15 mm
- weight: 0.4kg
- contains: 5 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Preface to the 1998 reprint
Introduction to the 1998 edition
Abbreviations and bibliography
Introduction
Encomium Emmae Reginae
Appendices
General index
Index to the text of the Encomium
Glossary.
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