England in Europe

In England in Europe, Elizabeth Tyler focuses on two histories: the Encomium Emmae Reginae, written for Emma the wife of the Æthelred II and Cnut, and The Life of King Edward, written for Edith the wife of Edward the Confessor.

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 the first major study to address the topic of the role royal women in England played in the composition of literary texts. It is a great tribute to Elizabeth M. Tyler that she manages to tell a wonderfully coherent, original, and fresh story of the queens before, during, and after the two conquests of England in the eleventh century."

Elizabeth van Houts, Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge:

"Elizabeth M. Tyler tackles a series of important topics including women’s Latin literacy, the nature of historical writing and fictions, and the place of eleventh-century England in European Latin culture. England in Europe is a sobering and significant counter to the linguistic nationalism which has dominated much of English literary history."