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Encomium Emmae Reginae

Simon Keynes editor Alistair Campbell editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:13th Aug '98

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Reprint of a primary source which gives important insights into the Danish conquest of England in the early eleventh century.

Along with a new introduction, the Encomium Emmae Reginae is reprinted and translated here in full thus providing students and historians of Anglo-Saxon England with greater access to a primary source of utmost importance for our understanding of the Danish conquest of England in the early eleventh century.The Encomium Emmae Reginae is a political tract in praise, as its title suggests, 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 a primary source of the utmost importance for our understanding of the Danish conquest of England in the early eleventh century, and for the political intrigue in the years which followed the death of King Cnut in 1035. It offers a remarkable account of a woman who was twice a queen, and of her determination to retain her power as queen-mother. This reprint, which contains the definitive text and translation of the Encomium Emmae Reginae first published in 1949, traces the basic outline of Queen Emma's career and transports us to the heart of eleventh-century politics by defining as clearly as possible the historical context in which the Encomium was written.

"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

ISBN: 9780521626552

Dimensions: 229mm x 153mm x 15mm

Weight: 400g

268 pages