England in Europe
English Royal Women and Literary Patronage, c.1000-c.1150
Format:Hardback
Publisher:University of Toronto Press
Published:7th Apr '17
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"Elizabeth M. Tyler tackles a series of important topics including women's Latin literacy, the nature of historical writing and fictions, and the place of eleventh-century England in European Latin culture. England in Europe is a sobering and significant counter to the linguistic nationalism which has dominated much of English literary history." -- Elizabeth van Houts, Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge
In England in Europe, Elizabeth Tyler focuses on two histories: the Encomium Emmae Reginae, written for Emma the wife of the Æthelred II and Cnut, and The Life of King Edward, written for Edith the wife of Edward the Confessor.
In England in Europe, Elizabeth Tyler focuses on two histories: the Encomium Emmae Reginae, written for Emma the wife of the Æthelred 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.
"England in Europe is by any measure a groundbreaking book. It will change the ways in which we understand royal female patronage, medieval classicism, and literary production in eleventh-century England…"
-- Stacy S. Klein, Rutgers University * Speculum vol. 93 no. 4, Oct 2018 *"Elizabeth Tyler’s transformative study of English queens’ patronage of Latin literature in the eleventh and early twelfth centuries builds, in new and adventurous ways, on developments in the study of late Anglo-Saxon culture that have occurred over the last two or three decades."
-- Stephanie Hollis, The University of Auckland * Parergon 35.1 *"Tyler’s grasp of the historiography and her command of the primary material provides a solid framework to untangle the rich and detailed layers of meaning evident in her complex source material and as such opens up new ways of reading familiar works…."
-- Leonie V. Hicks, Canterbury Christ Church University * Early Medieval Europe, vol 27:ISBN: 9781442640726
Dimensions: 236mm x 159mm x 32mm
Weight: 820g
464 pages