In 1999, the 1100th anniversary of the death of Alfred the Great, two international conferences were held to re-evaluate and contextualise Alfred's achievements and the developments of his reign. This volume includes papers given at both events and provides substantial assessments, by leading scholars, of issues of source-criticism, of the large corpus of Old English literature associated with Alfred and of developments in government and society in late 9th century England. It also explores how Alfred and his kingdom related to the wider geo-political and cultural situation in the British Isles and continental Europe, and closes with a substantial survey of the uses and shifts in Alfred's reputation in the centuries following his death.
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hagiographic prefaces, bookland estates, new longships, mint network, verse preface, knots sailing, viking threat, minster parishes, viking bands, prose preface, viking forces, modesty topos, later ninth century, viking army, uniform currency Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
West Saxon, Charles the Bald, Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Anglo-Saxon England, Alfred the Great, Burghal Hidage, Alfred Jewel, East Anglia, Gregory the Great, Edward the Elder, Charles the Fat, New Minster, Dark Age, Louis the Pious, New York, Asser's Life, Domesday Book, Bodleian Library, British Museum, Fuller Brooch, Louis the German, Saxon London, Simon Keynes, Sutton Hoo, West Frankish New!
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- Anglo-Saxon England: Volume 28 by Michael Lapidge on 23 pages
- Charles the Bald (Medieval World) by Janet L. Nelson on 18 pages
- Anglo-Saxon Chronicle by King Alfred the Great on 9 pages
- Anglo-Saxon England (Oxford History of England) by Sir Frank M. Stenton on 8 pages
- The Making of English Law : King Alfred to the Twelfth Century : Vol 2 From God's Law to Common Law by Jenny Wormald on 8 pages
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- The King's English: Strategies Of Translation In The Old English Boethius by Nicole Guenther Discenza on 8 pages
- The Anglo-Saxon Library by Michael Lapidge in Back Matter
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