King Alfred The Great

Author : Benjamin Merkle
Publisher : HarperChristian + ORM
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2009-11-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781418581039

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The White Horse King by Benjamin Merkle Pdf

The unlikely king who saved England. Down swept the Vikings from the frigid North. Across the English coastlands and countryside they raided, torched, murdered, and destroyed all in their path. Farmers, monks, and soldiers all fell bloody under the Viking sword, hammer, and axe. Then, when the hour was most desperate, came an unlikely hero. King Alfred rallied the battered and bedraggled kingdoms of Britain and after decades of plotting, praying, and persisting, finally triumphed over the invaders. Alfred's victory reverberates to this day: He sparked a literary renaissance, restructured Britain's roadways, revised the legal codes, and revived Christian learning and worship. It was Alfred's accomplishments that laid the groundwork for Britian's later glories and triumphs in literature, liturgy, and liberty. "Ben Merkle tells the sort of mythic adventure story that stirs the imagination and races the heart?and all the more so knowing that it is altogether true!" ?George Grant, author of The Last Crusader and The Blood of the Moon

Author : Alfred P. Smyth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 816 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015038433879

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King Alfred the Great by Alfred P. Smyth Pdf

Soldier, statesman, and scholar, Alfred the Great was a fascinating and highly successful king, pushing back the Vikings to command what is now thought of as the heart of England as ruler of Wessex from 871-899. In this, the first major biography of King Alfred since 1902, his life, career and enduring legacy are given a radical new interpretation, putting into question most of our assumptions about this singular monarch. Alfred P. Smyth's portrait of King Alfred rejects the image of a neurotic and invalid king who supposedly remained a pious illiterate until he was almost 40. Instead, we are shown a man of remarkable energy and intelligence who took necessary steps to defend his people from the Norsemen. We see, 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. Smyth also provides a detailed examination of the much-disputed medieval biography of King Alfred, attributed to the King's tutor, Asser. Alfred Smyth argues that Asser's Life may, in fact, have been a late medieval forgery--a revelation with profound implications for our understanding of the whole of Anglo-Saxon history. Smyth's King Alfred 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. (Smyth shows this work to have been much more closely connected with the court of King Alfred than previously realized and suggests a new date for the completion of the earliest Alfredian section of the Chronicle.) A monumental and intriguing work of historical scholarship, King Alfred the Great will dramatically change the way we understand this early period of western civilization.

Author : Alfred (King of England)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1852
Category : Anglo-Saxons
ISBN : UOM:39015033521645

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The Whole Works of King Alfred the Great by Alfred (King of England) Pdf

Author : Richard Abels
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317900412

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Alfred the Great by Richard Abels Pdf

This biography of Alfred the Great, king of the West Saxons (871-899), combines a sensitive reading of the primary sources with a careful evaluation of the most recent scholarly research on the history and archaeology of ninth-century England. Alfred emerges from the pages of this biography as a great warlord, an effective and inventive ruler, and a passionate scholar whose piety and intellectual curiosity led him to sponsor a cultural and spiritual renaissance. Alfred's victories on the battlefield and his sweeping administrative innovations not only preserved his native Wessex from viking conquest, but began the process of political consolidation that would culminate in the creation of the kingdom of England. Alfred the Great: War, Kingship and Culture in Anglo-Saxon England strips away the varnish of later interpretations to recover the historical Alfredpragmatic, generous, brutal, pious, scholarly within the context of his own age.

Author : Eleanor Shipley Duckett
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780226229195

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Alfred the Great by Eleanor Shipley Duckett Pdf

From the author of The Gateway to the Middle Ages, “a fascinating portrait of an enlightened monarch against a background of darkness and ignorance” (Kirkus Reviews). Filled with drama and action, here is the story of the ninth-century life and times of Alfred—warrior, conqueror, lawmaker, scholar, and the only king whom England has ever called “The Great.” Based on up-to-date information on ninth-century history, geography, philosophy, literature, and social life, it vividly presents exciting views of Alfred in every stage of his long career and leaves the reader with a sharply etched picture of the world of the Middle Ages.

Author : Justin Pollard
Publisher : John Murray
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2006-06-29
Category : History
ISBN : NWU:35556038659280

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Alfred the Great by Justin Pollard Pdf

Alfred was England's first king, and his rule spanned troubled times. As his shores sat under constant threat from Viking marauders, his life was similarly imperiled by conspiracies in his own court. He was an extraordinary character - a soldier, scholar, and statesman like no other in English history - and out of adversity he forged a new kind of nation. Justin Pollard's enthralling account strips back centuries of myth to reveal the individual behind the legend. He offers a radical new interpretation of what inspired Alfred to create England and how it has colored the nation's history to the present day.

Author : Alfred (King of England)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1852
Category : Anglo-Saxons
ISBN : BL:A0024397742

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The Whole Works of King Alfred the Great by Alfred (King of England) Pdf

Author : Great Britain
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Law, Anglo-Saxon
ISBN : CHI:24726167

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The Legal Code of Ælfred the Great by Great Britain Pdf

Author : Rev. James Ingram
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781773562001

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The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle by Rev. James Ingram Pdf

Author : David Pratt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2007-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1139463551

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The Political Thought of King Alfred the Great by David Pratt Pdf

This book is a comprehensive study of political thought at the court of King Alfred the Great (871–99). It explains the extraordinary burst of royal learned activity focused on inventive translations from Latin into Old English attributed to Alfred's own authorship. A full exploration of context establishes these texts as part of a single discourse which placed Alfred himself at the heart of all rightful power and authority. A major theme is the relevance of Frankish and other European experiences, as sources of expertise and shared concerns, and for important contrasts with Alfredian thought and behaviour. Part I assesses Alfred's rule against West Saxon structures, showing the centrality of the royal household in the operation of power. Part II offers an intimate analysis of the royal texts, developing far-reaching implications for Alfredian kingship, communication and court culture. Comparative in approach, the book places Alfred's reign at the forefront of wider European trends in aristocratic life.

Author : Asser
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781291481457

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Alfred the Great by Asser Pdf

Author : Pope Gregory I
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : EAN:8596547730088

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Pastoral Care by Pope Gregory I Pdf

Pastoral Care, or The Book of the Pastoral Rule, is a treatise on the responsibilities of the clergy written by Pope Gregory I in which he contrasted the role of bishops as pastors of their flock with their position as nobles of the church: the definitive statement of the nature of the episcopal office. Gregory enjoined parish priests to possess strict personal, intellectual and moral standards which were considered, in certain quarters, to be unrealistic and beyond ordinary capacities. The influence of the book, however, was vast and became one of the most influential works on the topic ever written. It was translated and distributed to every bishop within the Byzantine Empire.

Author : David Sturdy
Publisher : Trafalgar Square Publishing
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Anglo-Saxons
ISBN : NWU:35556030681399

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Alfred the Great by David Sturdy Pdf

A history of King Alfred the Great, which examines the myths and legends that have surrounded the philosopher-king since the 12th century, whose learning and piety were probably even more remarkable than his heroic stature and military acumen.

Author : Jacob Abbott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 1947644165

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Makers of History by Jacob Abbott Pdf

Author : David Horspool
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 067402320X

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King Alfred by David Horspool Pdf

Horspool sees Alfred as inextricably linked to the legends and stories that surround him, and rather than attempting to separate the myth from the "reality," he explores how both came together to provide a historical figure that was all things to all men.