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Alfred the Great : papers from the eleventh-centenary conferences / edited by Timothy Reuter.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Studies in early medieval Britain
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Alfred, King of England, 849-899--Congresses.
- Alfred.
- Alfred, King of England, 849-899.
- Anglo-Saxons--Biography.
- Kings and rulers.
- History.
- Great Britain--History--Alfred, 871-899--Congresses.
- Great Britain.
- Great Britain--Kings and rulers--Biography--Congresses.
- Wessex (England)--Kings and rulers--Biography--Congresses.
- Wessex (England).
- Anglo-Saxons--Biography--Congresses.
- Anglo-Saxons.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 387 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2003]
- Contents:
- Introduction. Placing King Alfred / James Campbell
- The sources. Asser's reading / Michael Lapidge
- Alfredian arithmetic - Asserian architectonics / David Howlett
- The Anglo-Saxon chronicle and the idea of Rome in Alfredian literature / Susan Irvin
- Ædificia nova: treasures of Alfred's reign / Leslie Webster
- Alfredian literature. The Alfredian canon revisited: one hundred years on / Janet Bately
- The form and function of the preface in the poetry and prose of Alfred's reign / Allen J. Frantzen
- The player king: identification and self-representation in King Alfred's writings / Malcolm Godden
- Alfredian government and society. Alfredian government: the West Saxon inheritance / Nicholas Brooks
- The power of the written word: Alfredian England 871-899 / Simon Keynes
- Alfred's coinage reforms in context / Mark Blackburn
- The origin of Alfred's urban policies / David Hill
- Alfred and London / Derek Keene
- Succession and inheritance: a gendered perspective on Alfred's family history / Pauline Stafford
- Alfred the Great, the micel hœðen here and the viking threat / Richard Abels
- Alfred's new longships / Edwin and Joyce Gifford
- Alfred and contemporary rulership. Alfred's Carolingian contemporaries / Janet L. Nelson
- Alfred the Great and Arnulf of Carinthia: a comparison / Anton Scharer
- Alfred's contemporaries: Irish, Welsh, Scots and Breton / Wendy Davies
- The ruler as instructor, pastor and wise: Leo VI of Byzantium and Symeon of Bulgaria / Jonathan Shepard
- Alfred as icon. Alfredism: the use and abuse of King Alfred's reputation in later centuries / Barbara Yorke.
- Notes:
- Papers originally delivered at a conference at the Wessex Medieval Center, University of Southampton, Sept. 1999 and in London in Oct. 1999.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 075460957X
- OCLC:
- 49805670
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