King Alfred the GreatOxford University Press, 1995 - 744 עמודים Soldier, statesman, and scholar, Alfred the Great was a fascinating and highly successful king, pushing back the Vikings to command what is now thought of as the heart of England as ruler of Wessex from 871-899. In this, the first major biography of King Alfred since 1902, his life, career and enduring legacy are given a radical new interpretation, putting into question most of our assumptions about this singular monarch. Alfred P. Smyth's portrait of King Alfred rejects the image of a neurotic and invalid king who supposedly remained a pious illiterate until he was almost 40. Instead, we are shown a man of remarkable energy and intelligence who took necessary steps to defend his people from the Norsemen. We see, too, a king who had been a scholar all his life and who used his great knowledge to bolster the powers of his own kingship. Smyth also provides a detailed examination of the much-disputed medieval biography of King Alfred, attributed to the King's tutor, Asser. Alfred Smyth argues that Asser's Life may, in fact, have been a late medieval forgery--a revelation with profound implications for our understanding of the whole of Anglo-Saxon history. Smyth's King Alfred also contains major studies on the writings of this gifted king, on the controversial charters of his reign, and on the origins of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. (Smyth shows this work to have been much more closely connected with the court of King Alfred than previously realized and suggests a new date for the completion of the earliest Alfredian section of the Chronicle.) A monumental and intriguing work of historical scholarship, King Alfred the Great will dramatically change the way we understand this early period of western civilization. |
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... attack on a viking island- fortress in the Seine were criticized by a commentator on their own side for their ' ill - considered attack ' in the very same year , 871 , when Æthelred and Alfred led their army against Reading . That ...
... attack on a viking island- fortress in the Seine were criticized by a commentator on their own side for their ' ill - considered attack ' in the very same year , 871 , when Æthelred and Alfred led their army against Reading . That ...
עמוד 102
... attack on Rochester in 885 , and an attack by Alfred on East Anglia in that same year , Alfred's taking of London in 886 , and the deaths of Archbishop Ethelred and of Ealdorman Æthelwold in 888. The 885 entry alone contains the kind of ...
... attack on Rochester in 885 , and an attack by Alfred on East Anglia in that same year , Alfred's taking of London in 886 , and the deaths of Archbishop Ethelred and of Ealdorman Æthelwold in 888. The 885 entry alone contains the kind of ...
עמוד 130
... attacks by the Great Army in 871 down to Hæsten's cam- paigns of 896. In essence an on - going parasitic strategy was pursued , whereby the main targets for attack were isolated for their raiding or settlement potential , and once ...
... attacks by the Great Army in 871 down to Hæsten's cam- paigns of 896. In essence an on - going parasitic strategy was pursued , whereby the main targets for attack were isolated for their raiding or settlement potential , and once ...
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From Obscurity to Precarious Kingship | 3 |
The Gathering Storm 872875 | 51 |
To the Last Ditch at Edington | 66 |
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