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Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Note on Translations and Referencing ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Abbreviations xv
6. Genealogical Table xvii
7. Introduction 1
8. 1 Vernacular Foundations 20
9. 2 Fictions of Family: The Encomium Emmae reginae and Virgil’s Aeneid 51
10. 3 Talking about History: The Encomium Emmae reginae and the Court of Harthacnut 101
11. 4 The Politics of Allusion in Eleventh- Century England: Classical Poets and the Vita Ædwardi 135
12. 5 Reading through the Conquest 202
13. 6 The Women of 1066 260
14. 7 Edith Becomes Matilda 302
15. Conclusion: Endings and Beginnings 354
16. Bibliography 367
17. Index 415