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England in Europe
English Royal Women and Literary Patronage, C.1000-c.1150
Elizabeth Muir Tyler (Author)
9781442640726
Hardback, published 7 April 2017
464 pages
23.6 x 15.9 x 3.2 cm, 0.82 kg
"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…" "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." "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…."
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.
Note on Translations List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction 1: Vernacular Foundations 2: Fictions of Family: The Encomium Emmae Reginae and Virgil’s Aeneid 3: Talking about History: The Encomium Emmae Reginae and the Court of Harthacnut 4: The Politics of Allusion in Eleventh-Century England: Classical Poets and the Vita Ædwardi 5: Reading Through the Conquest 6: The Women of 1066 7: Edith Becomes Matilda Conclusion: Endings and Beginnings