England in Europe

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.

"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…"- Stacy S. Klein, Rutgers University (Speculum vol. 93 no. 4, Oct 2018) "Elizabeth Tyler’s transformative study of English queens’ patronage of Latin literature in the eleventh and early twelfth centuries builds, in new and adventurous ways, on developments in the study of late Anglo-Saxon culture that have occurred over the last two or three decades."- Stephanie Hollis, The University of Auckland (Parergon 35.1) "Tyler’s grasp of the historiography and her command of the primary material provides a solid framework to untangle the rich and detailed layers of meaning evident in her complex source material and as such opens up new ways of reading familiar works…." - Leonie V. Hicks, Canterbury Christ Church University (Early Medieval Europe, vol 27: 1)

• Note on TranslationsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsAbbreviationsIntroduction1: Vernacular Foundations2: Fictions of Family: The Encomium Emmae Reginae and Virgil’s Aeneid3: Talking about History: The Encomium Emmae Reginae and the Court of Harthacnut4: The Politics of Allusion in Eleventh-Century England: Classical Poets and the Vita Ædwardi5: Reading Through the Conquest6: The Women of 10667: Edith Becomes MatildaConclusion: Endings and BeginningsBibliography