Alfred the Great

Alfred the Great

Papers from the Eleventh-Centenary Conferences

Reuter, Timothy

Taylor & Francis Ltd

07/2003

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Contents: Foreword; Introduction: Placing King Alfred, James Campbell; The sources: Asser's reading, Michael Lapidge; A?lfredian arithmetic, Asserian architectonics, David Howlett; The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and the idea of Rome in Alfredian literature, Susan Irvine; A?dificia nova: treasures of Alfred's reign, Leslie Webster; Alfredian literature: The Alfredian canon revisited: a 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; What 'Great heathen army'? Alfred the Great, the Micel HA|A degreesen 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.
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Alfred's Reign;west;EHR;alfreds;West Saxon;reign;West Saxon Charter;king;Burghal Hidage;burghal;Alfred's Court;hidage;Alfred's Wessex;charter;Prose Preface;anglo-saxon;Anglo-Saxon Chronicle;england;Boethius's De Consolatione Philosophiae;court;Young Men;Pastoral Care;Alfredian Translations;Verse Preface;Ceolwulf II;King Alfred's Court;St Emmeram;SRG;Sicut Scriptum Est;English Boethius;Leo VI;MGH Poetae;Alfred Jewel;Vice Versa;Gregory The Great