Medievalists.net » Queen Emma http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Sun, 06 Dec 2015 23:06:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 What Women Want: Female readers of Virgil’s Aeneid in the Middle Ages http://www.medievalists.net/2015/03/08/women-want-female-readers-virgils-aeneid-middle-ages/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/03/08/women-want-female-readers-virgils-aeneid-middle-ages/#comments Sun, 08 Mar 2015 22:23:10 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=56698 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.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/05/04/book-review-shadow-on-the-crown/feed/ 0 The Danish attacks on London and Southwark in ‘1016’ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/01/28/the-danish-attacks-on-london-and-southwark-in-1016/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/01/28/the-danish-attacks-on-london-and-southwark-in-1016/#comments Mon, 28 Jan 2013 18:38:11 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=38971 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.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/01/28/the-danish-attacks-on-london-and-southwark-in-1016/feed/ 0 Emma of Normandy, Queen of England http://www.medievalists.net/2013/01/22/emma-of-normandy-queen-of-england/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/01/22/emma-of-normandy-queen-of-england/#comments Wed, 23 Jan 2013 02:55:04 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=38859 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.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/01/22/emma-of-normandy-queen-of-england/feed/ 0 Aethelred the Unready http://www.medievalists.net/2013/01/16/aethelred-the-unready/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/01/16/aethelred-the-unready/#comments Thu, 17 Jan 2013 04:16:57 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=38760 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.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/01/16/aethelred-the-unready/feed/ 0 Who was the mysterious Ælfgyva in the Bayeux Tapestry? http://www.medievalists.net/2012/11/13/who-was-the-mysterious-aelfgyva-in-the-bayeux-tapestry/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/11/13/who-was-the-mysterious-aelfgyva-in-the-bayeux-tapestry/#comments Tue, 13 Nov 2012 22:21:08 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=37118 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.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/11/13/who-was-the-mysterious-aelfgyva-in-the-bayeux-tapestry/feed/ 0 Talking about history in eleventh century England: the Encomium Emmae Reginae and the court of Harthacnut http://www.medievalists.net/2011/09/20/talking-about-history-in-eleventh-century-england-the-encomium-emmae-reginae-and-the-court-of-harthacnut/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/09/20/talking-about-history-in-eleventh-century-england-the-encomium-emmae-reginae-and-the-court-of-harthacnut/#comments Tue, 20 Sep 2011 20:34:03 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=25635 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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