Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Maps
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Fifth Century
- Sixth Century
- Seventh Century
- Eighth Century
- Ninth Century
- Tenth Century
- Eleventh Century
- I.41 Three Accounts of King Alfred and the Cakes
- I.42 In Praise of Queen Emma
- Select Bibliography for Volume I
- General Index
- Index of Passages Cited
I.42 - In Praise of Queen Emma
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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 January 2024
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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Maps
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Fifth Century
- Sixth Century
- Seventh Century
- Eighth Century
- Ninth Century
- Tenth Century
- Eleventh Century
- I.41 Three Accounts of King Alfred and the Cakes
- I.42 In Praise of Queen Emma
- Select Bibliography for Volume I
- General Index
- Index of Passages Cited
Summary
This work written in honour of Queen Emma, wife of Æthelred the Unready and then of king Cnut, and mother of king Edward the Confessor, contains much information about royal life and intrigue at the beginning of the eleventh century. Here an account of the murder of her younger son Alfred on his return to England is excerpted.
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- The Cambridge Anthology of British Medieval Latin , pp. 450 - 459Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024