Alfred The Great. Anglo-Saxon. Alfred P. Smyth. Oxford University Press

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KING ALFRED THE GREAT

AUTHOR:          Alfred P. Smyth

PUBLISHED:     Oxford University Press, 1995

FORMAT:           Hb, 744pp, illustrated, notes, bibliography, index.

CONDITION:     Used...ex-library stock, so expect library stamps / marks / stickers.
                          Dust jacket, good condition, minimal wear.
                          Book: good, sound & clean condition.

Warrior, law-giver, and scholar, Alfred the Great was an extraordinarily gifted and highly successful king, pushing back the Vikings to preserve what is now thought of as the heart of England.

In this, the first major study of King Alfred since Plummer’s biography of 1902, the career of King Alfred is followed chronologically and examined in depth.

The author provides a detailed examination of the much-disputed medieval biography of King Alfred, attributed to the king’s tutor, Asser. He argues that Asser’s Life is a medieval forgery; a revelation with profound implications for our understanding of the whole of Anglo-Saxon history.

This book 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.

The author shows the Chronicle to have been much more closely connected with the court of King Alfred than has hitherto been allowed, and suggests a new date for the completion of the earliest Alfredian section of the Chronicle.

The author also provides a fundamental reassessment of Alfred’s military and political achievement in his wars against the Vikings, and compares the experiences of the English king with those of his Frankish contemporaries in their struggle with the same enemy on the other side of the English Channel.

His portrait of Alfred rejects the image of a neurotic and invalid king who supposedly remained a pious illiterate till he was almost 40. Instead, we are shown a man of remarkable energy and intelligence who took necessery steps to defend his people from the Northmen..

We are shown 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, and to overcome his enemies.

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