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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    accounts of Sweyn's later life also appear in the Encomium Emmae Reginae, an 11th-century Latin encomium in honour of his son king Cnut's queen Emma of Normandy...
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    ISBN 978-0-7012-0431-0. Campbell, Alistair; Keynes, Simon (1998). Encomium Emmae Reginae. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-62655-2....
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  • recently attributed to Symeon of Durham.) The anonymous author of the Encomium Emmae Reginae (written in the early 1040s) was apparently acquainted with the...
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    of Worcester records this as a victory for the English while the Encomium Emmae Reginae citing Thorkell the Tall as heading the danish army, claims otherwise...
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    Retrieved 20 September 2015. Alistair Campbell, ed. (13 August 1998). Encomium Emmae Reginae. Cambridge University Press. p. 25. ISBN 0-521-62655-2. Hasted,...
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    Archived from the original on 14 April 2014. Retrieved 13 April 2014. Encomium Emmae Reginae by Alistair Campbell, p. xl, https://archive.org/details/in.ernet...
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    the English lines and win a decisive victory. The version in the Encomium Emmae Reginae says that Eadric urged his men to flee before the battle began,...
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  • translator) and Simon Keynes (supplementary introduction) (1998). Encomium Emmae Reginae. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-62655-2 Christiansen, Eric...
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    translator) and Simon Keynes (supplementary introduction) (1998). Encomium Emmae Reginae. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-62655-2 Driscoll, M. J....
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    December 2005. Retrieved 21 June 2010. Campbell, Alistair, ed. (1998), Encomium Emmae Reginae, London: Cambridge University Jones, Gwyn (1984), A History of the...
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    the Great and Queen Emma of Normandy (1031) Encomium Emmae Reginae, lavishly illustrated Latin encomium in honour of Queen Emma of Normandy, consort...
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  • Barcelona and kings of Aragon", 14th century Gesta Cnutonis Regis or Encomium Emmae Reginae, "Deeds of King Canute" 11th-century, also covers Queen Emma of...
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  • is succeeded by his half-brother Edward the Confessor as King. Encomium Emmae Reginae, a biography of the dowager Emma of Normandy, twice queen consort...
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    Emma of Normandy, seated with sons Harthacnut and Edward the Confessor, in this manuscript copy of the Encomium Emmae Reginae from about 1042...
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  • Maxims and Finest Sayings), by al-Mubashshir ibn Fatiq 1041–42 – Encomium Emmae Reginae probably by a Flemish monk of the Abbey of Saint Bertin, Saint-Omer...
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    S2CID 160607440. Orchard, A (2001). "The Literary Background to the Encomium Emmae Reginae". The Journal of Medieval Latin. 11: 156–183. doi:10.1484/J.JML...
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    in historiis Britonum Gildas, De excidio Britanniae Anonymous, Encomium Emmae Reginae, which is called Tractatus de gestis regis Chnutonis in the explicit...
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    commissioned a book presenting herself as the hero of the story (the Encomium Emmae Reginae). In this, Edith proved to be just like her father. She survived...
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    Timothy (2009). "A Newly Emergent Mediaeval Manuscript Containing Encomium Emmae reginae with the Only Known Complete Text of the Recension Prepared for...
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  • palisade wall (tiles) on a base log (väggplankor på syll). The Encomium Emmae Reginae suggests that, in an effort to spread Christianity throughout Scandinavia...
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