Alfred the Great: Papers from the Eleventh-Centenary ConferencesTimothy Reuter Routledge, 15 de mai. de 2017 - 404 páginas 1999 marked the eleven-hundredth anniversary of the death of Alfred the Great, and to mark this event, 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 ninth-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. This substantial and wide ranging volume will become a standard reference work for anyone interested in Old English literature or Anglo-Saxon history, and will set the pattern of future scholarly debate. |
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Assers reading | |
Alfredian arithmetic Asserian architectonics | |
The AngloSaxon Chronicle and the idea of Rome in Alfredian | |
treasures of Alfreds reign | |
one hundred years | |
The form and function of the preface in the poetry and prose | |
identification and selfrepresentation in King | |
the West Saxon inheritance | |
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Æthelbald Æthelred Æthelwulf Alfred Jewel Alfred’s Alfred’s court Alfred’s reign Alfredian Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Anglo-Saxon England Annals appears Archaeological archbishop army Arnulf Asser Bately Bede Bede’s bishops Blackburn Boethius Burghal Hidage burh Byzantine Canterbury Carolingian Ceolwulf Charles Charles the Bald Church coinage coins contemporary context Danes Danish Dialogues Dumville Ealdorman Early Medieval ecclesiastical Edward the Elder evidence father Francia Frankish Gregory’s Guthrum History Ibid J. L. Nelson Kent Keynes and Lapidge King Alfred King Alfred’s king’s kingdom kingship land late later Latin London manuscript Mercian Micheldever Middle Ages millenary Minster mints moneyers ninth century Old English Orosius Pastoral perhaps political prose preface recoinage reference Roman Rome royal rulers settlement shires Smyth Soliloquies sources Studies suggested surviving Symeon tenth thegns trans translation verse preface Viking Vita Ælfredi Wales Wessex West Saxon West Saxon charters Whitelock Winchester wisdom words