Encomium Emmae Reginae Paperback / softback
Edited by Alistair (University of Cambridge) Campbell
Part of the Camden Classic Reprints series
Paperback / softback
Description
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.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:268 pages, 5 Halftones, unspecified
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:13/08/1998
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- ISBN:9780521626552
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:268 pages, 5 Halftones, unspecified
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:13/08/1998
- Category:
- ISBN:9780521626552
