Encomium Emmae Reginae or Gesta Cnutonis Regis is an 11th-century Latin encomium in honour of the English queen Emma of Normandy. It was written in 1041...
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rivalry with Harold Harefoot. Emma is the central figure within the Encomium Emmae Reginae, a critical source for the history of early-11th-century English...
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encomium to herself De Pippini regis Victoria Avarica is a medieval encomium of the victory of Pepin of Italy over the Avars Encomium Emmae Reginae is...
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been survived by three sons: Svein, Harold, and Harthacnut. The Encomium Emmae Reginae also describes Edward the Confessor and Alfred Aetheling as the...
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such great fleetness, that they scorned the speed of horsemen. — Encomium Emmae Reginae Wessex, long ruled by the dynasty of Alfred and Æthelred, submitted...
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wife Ælfgifu of Northampton to marry Emma, and according to the Encomium Emmae Reginae, a book she inspired many years later, Cnut agreed that any sons...
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that Cnut had reserved the English throne for Harold, while the Encomium Emmae Reginae, written to defend Harthacnut's mother, Emma, claims that he had...
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the British victory at the Battle of Trafalgar. The contemporary Encomium Emmae Reginae has no mention of the episode, which has been taken as indicating...
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ISBN 978-87-635-0781-3. Encomium Emmae Reginae: Cnutonis regis Gesta sive Encomium Emmae reginae (edition 1865) (in Latin) and Encomium Emmae reginae. Edited for...
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1959 ISBN 0-19-811901-1). He translated the mediaeval Latin text, Encomium Emmae Reginae, into modern English for the first time, published in 1949. This...
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