Encomium Emmae reginae

Auteur:	Un moine anonyme de Saint-Bertin
Titre:	Encomium Emmae reginae; Éloge de la reine Emma
Date:	Vers 1040
Commanditaire:	Emma de Normandie, reine d'Angleterre († 1052)
Langue:	Latin
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Forme:	Vers
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Manuscrits

London, British Library, Add MS 33241
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Éditions anciennes

Éditions modernes

Cnutonis regis gesta sive Encomium Emmae reginae auctore monacho Sancti Bertini. In usum scholarum ex monumentis Germaniae historicis recudi fecit Georgius Henricus Pertz, Hannover, Hahn (Scriptores rerum Germanicarum in usum scholarum, [22]), 1865, viii + 39 p. [GB] [IA: ex. 1, ex. 2]
Réimpression:
- Leipzig, Obraldruck Brandstetter, 1955
Encomium Emmae Reginae, edited and translated by Alistair Campbell, London, Royal Historical Society (Camden Third Series, 72), 1949.
Compte rendu: J. Dhondt, dans Revue du Nord, 32 (n° 126-127), 1950, p. 239-240.
Encomium Emmae reginae, edited by Alistair Campbell, with a supplementary introduction by Simon Keynes, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press (Camden Classic Reprints, 4), 1998, cli + 112 p.
Encomium Emmae Reginae = Éloge de la reine Emma par un clerc de Flandre, éd. et trad. fr. Françoise Orange, Caen, Presses universitaires de Caen (Fontes et paginae), 2022, 217 p.

Traductions modernes

en anglais:
- Campbell 1949 (voir sous Éditions modernes)
- Campbell et Keynes 2002 (voir sous Éditions modernes)
- Bell, Jacob, The Documentary Politics of Conquered England's Queens: New Translations of the “Encomium of Queen Emma” and the “Life of King Edward, Leeds, Arc Humanities Press (Foundations), 2025, 152 p. ISBN: 9781802703108
  Compte rendu:
  Laura L. Gathagan, dans The Medieval Review, 26.06.20, 2026. [www]
en français:
- Orange 2002 (voir sous Éditions modernes)

Études

Bolton, Timothy, « A newly emergent mediaeval manuscript containing Encomium Emmae Reginae with the only known complete text of the recension prepared for King Edward the Confessor », Mediaeval Scandinavia, 19, 2009, p. 205-221.
Borysławski, Rafał, « "They could not let her go with dry eyes…": manifesting emotions in the Encomium Emmae Reginae », Emotions as Engines of History, éd. Rafał Borysławski et Alicja Bemben, New York, Routledge (Routledge Studies in Cultural History, 113), 2022.
Butler, Emily, « Authority and language in the Encomium Emmae Reginae », English Studies, 101:1, 2020, p. 6-22. DOI: 10.1080/0013838x.2020.1708081
Hobson, Jacob, « National-ethnic narratives in eleventh-century literary representations of Cnut », Anglo-Saxon England, 43, 2014, p. 267-295.
John, E., « Encomium », Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, 63, 1980-1981, p. 58-94.
McCash, June Hall, « Negotiating the text: women patrons in the poetic process », Romance Philology, 57:1, 2003-2004, p. 27-43. [jstor.org]
Orchard, Andy, « The literary background to the Encomium Emmae Reginae », The Journal of Medieval Latin, 11, 2001, p. 156-183. DOI: 10.1484/j.jml.2.304152
Stafford, Pauline, « Writing the biography of eleventh-century queens », Writing Medieval Biography 750-1250: Essays in Honour of Professor Frank Barlow, éd. David Bates, Julia Crick et Sarah Hamilton, Woodbridge, Boydell Press, 2006, p. 99-110.
Tyler, Elizabeth M., « "The eyes of the beholders were dazzled": treasure and artifice in Encomium Emmae Reginae », Early Medieval Europe, 8:2, 2003, p. 247-270. DOI: 10.1111/1468-0254.00046
Tyler, Elizabeth M., « Fictions of family: the Encomium Emmae Reginae and Virgil's Aeneid », Viator, 36, 2005, p. 149-179. DOI: 10.1484/j.viator.2.300008
Tyler, Elizabeth M., « Talking about history in eleventh-century England: the Encomium Emmae Reginae and the court of Harthacnut », Early Medieval Europe, 13:4, 2005, p. 359-383. DOI: 10.1111/J.1468-0254.2005.00162.X

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