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What Is the Motivation Behind the Commissioning of the Psalms?
A i talk about an amazing manuscript called the latural salter, which has these wild and enarchic and extraordinary images in its borders. A fascinating figure, queen emma of normandy, who wis the great aunt of william the conqueror, she is this pivotal figure in am late anglo saxon politics. She commissioned a work called the encomium ami regini, which literally translates us in praise of queen emma. It's a fascinating text because it tells us something quite important about i mean, i sometimes wonder about that text. Did she know the way women's stories tended to get mangled by posterity? How would you like to see their
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