Fictions of Family: The Encomium Emmae Reginae and Virgil’s Aeneid

Tyler, Elizabeth M.

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“…72 The Encomium is a dynastic history recording the events from the initial Danish conquest of England by Swein Forkbeard to Harthacnut's reign, although it infamously omits some delicate details of this history, including Emma's prior marriage to Cnut's predecessor AEthelred. 73 The Encomiast claims that his sole purpose is to contribute to Emma's personal glory, but the Encomium is especially interesting for its political positioning and was, as Simon Keynes argues, 'a work which might help to restore political faith in the Anglo-Danish regime established in the first instance by Cnut and which would represent her [Emma's] case, and her view of events, to those in positions of power and influence.' 74 The Encomiast, 'thoroughly unreliable and tendentious' in matters of historical fact though he may be, is sophisticated and effective in matters of rhetoric.…”

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National—ethnic narratives in eleventh-century literary representations of Cnut

Hobson

2014

Anglo-Saxon England

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This article takes literary representations of Cnut, the Danish conqueror of England, as a case study of the construction of English identity in the eleventh century. It traces representations of Cnut in four literary texts composed over the course of the century: the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, the Knútsdrápur, the Encomium Emmae Reginae, and Osbern of Canterbury's Translatio Sancti Ælfegi. Each of these texts constructs a politically useful national—ethnic identity through the figure of Cnut, using the mechanisms of kingship, piety and devotion, language, place and literary tradition to work through the particular exigencies faced by the audiences that they seek to address.

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National—ethnic narratives in eleventh-century literary representations of Cnut

Hobson

2014

Anglo-Saxon England

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“…They do not purport to mark definitive watersheds in English literary history. Beginning in 1042 with the accession of the Normandy‐raised Edward the Confessor emphasises that English contacts with Normandy predated the Conquest (Musset ‘Apports anglais’; Lewis), contacts which gave a European outlook to much 11th‐century English writing (Tyler ‘Fictions of Family’; ‘Talking about History’; ‘ Vita Ædwardi ’; ‘OE to OF’; van Houts ‘Flemish Contribution’). The article elects to end in 1215 with the Fourth Lateran Council which introduced mandatory auricular confession and (literary history holds) gave special impetus to the production of vernacular religious texts (Watson 828; Millett ‘ Ancrene Wisse Group’ esp.…”

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Rewriting English Literary History 1042–1215

Faulkner

2012

Literature Compass

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The last 10 years have seen a swathe of revisionary scholarship on the afterlife of Old English texts in the 12th century. This article places this research beside work on the earliest Middle English texts and contemporary writing in Latin and French to suggest that the time is now ripe for a new, synthetic literary history of the period. In particular, the article identifies three key aspects of post‐Conquest literary culture which have been neglected because they chafe against the conventional paradigms of literary history, with its expectation of a literature national, monolingual and constantly original. The 12th‐century norms, by contrast, were regionalism, multilingualism, and the habitual recycling of older texts. Medievalists must insist these differences should inform wider discussions about the form and purpose of literary history in the 21st century.

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Encomium Emmae Reginae

Parker

2017

The Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature in Britain

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The Encomium Emmae Reginae is a Latin text commissioned by Emma of Normandy and written during the reign of her son Harthacnut, king of England and Denmark, in 1041 or 1042. It deals with the Danish conquest of England by Svein Forkbeard and his son Cnut, Emma's second husband, and with the political turmoil which followed Cnut's death in 1035. In its selective narrative of these events the Encomium reflects the unique perspective of its female patron, a powerful influence at Harthacnut's court, and presents her as a pivotal figure in the establishment of the Anglo‐Danish regime.

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Fictions of Family: The Encomium Emmae Reginae and Virgil’s Aeneid

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National—ethnic narratives in eleventh-century literary representations of Cnut

National—ethnic narratives in eleventh-century literary representations of Cnut

Rewriting English Literary History 1042–1215

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