Description:
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.
Brief description:
Elizabeth M. Tyler is a professor of medieval literature in the Department of English and Related Literature and the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of York. She is a co-director of the Centre for Medieval Literature at the University of Southern Denmark and the University of York.
Review Quotes:
"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..."