The Queen: Encomium Emmae: Writing the Personae of Emma of Normandy

Kdy:
19.12.2019 @ 17:30 – 19:00
2019-12-19T17:30:00+01:00
2019-12-19T19:00:00+01:00
Kde:
Faculty of Arts, room P319
nám. Jana Palacha 1/2
The Queen: Encomium Emmae: Writing the Personae of Emma of Normandy @ Faculty of Arts, room P319

Lecturer: Katherine Weikert (Winchester).

Annotation:

Who justifies the past? This lecture will examine the Encomium Emmae Reginae through the lens of biography, drawing upon an archaeological approaches to the sense of time. Through biography, the tool used by Queen Emma to attempt to control not only her own reputation but the Anglo-Scandinavian monarchs in England, this lecture will seek to illuminate how we can understand Emma, the person, as well as Emma, the political Navigator.

The lecture is a part of the series Me and the World … Autobiography in Medieval and Early Modern Europe.

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