Emma evidently knew Virgil’s epic, to which the text she commissioned makes explicit reference, and commissioned a Latin work modelled on it as a political tool to influence the actions of men.
Book Review: Shadow on the Crown
May 4, 2013 By
A review of Patricia Bracewell’s book: Shadow on the Crown.
The Danish attacks on London and Southwark in ‘1016’
January 28, 2013 By
This incident has been fatally embroidered by many local historians, taking their cue from various sources, so that the popular accounts have distorted what was already a confusing set of events.
Emma of Normandy, Queen of England
January 22, 2013 By
In reading about the successors of Alfred, I came across a Queen, Emma, who really intrigued me. It was because of her, the course of English history was sent into a completely different direction.
Aethelred the Unready
January 16, 2013 By
Calling Aethelred ‘Unraed’ could mean he was given bad counsel, he did not take advice from his counselors or that he himself was unwise. Perhaps all were true. Let’s look at the story and see.
Who was the mysterious Ælfgyva in the Bayeux Tapestry?
November 13, 2012 By
Joanna Laynesmith, a medieval historian from the University of Reading offers two possibilities in a new article that appears in the October issue of History Today.
Talking about history in eleventh century England: the Encomium Emmae Reginae and the court of Harthacnut
September 20, 2011 By
Talking about history in eleventh century England: the Encomium Emmae Reginae and the court of Harthacnut Tyler, Elizabeth M. Early Medieval Europe, 13 (4) (2005) Abstract The Encomium Emmae Reginae was written in the early 1040s to support the interests of Queen Emma amidst the factionalism which marked the end of the period of Danish […]
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