The Life Of King Alfred

Author : John Asser
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PSU:000030047372

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Asser's Life of King Alfred by John Asser Pdf

Author : Benjamin Merkle
Publisher : HarperChristian + ORM
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 41,5 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 : Asser
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781291481457

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Alfred the Great by Asser Pdf

Author : John Asser
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39076005423848

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Asser's Life of King Alfred: Publishers by John Asser Pdf

Author : Asser of Sherbourne
Publisher : Dalcassian Publishing Company
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781078733984

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The Life of King Alfred by Asser of Sherbourne Pdf

The Life of King Alfred by Bishop Asser is the earliest known source about an Anglo-Saxon king, a king often known today as 'Alfred the Great' (r. 871–899 CE).

Author : Alfred P. Smyth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 816 pages
File Size : 40,6 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 : Bishop of Sherborne Asser
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:852053576

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Asser's Life of King Alfred by Bishop of Sherborne Asser Pdf

Author : John Allen Giles
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1848
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : BSB:BSB10279908

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The Life and Times of Alfred the Great by John Allen Giles Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1984-01-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780140444094

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Alfred the Great by Anonim Pdf

This comprehensive collection includes Asser's Life of Alfred, extracts from The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, and Alfred's own writings, laws, and will. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Author : Asser,J. A. Giles
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1503157180

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The Life of King Alfred by Asser,J. A. Giles Pdf

This is a biography of the medieval Anglo-Saxon King Alfred, part of a dynasty that maintained control over England until the Norman Conquest led by William the Conqueror hundreds of years later during the 11th century.

Author : Asser, Bishop of Sherborne
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 9 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781465532091

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The Life of King Alfred by Asser, Bishop of Sherborne Pdf

Author : John Asser
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 83 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:15484038

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Asser's Life of King Alfred by John Asser Pdf

Author : Asser Bishop of Sherborne
Publisher : Blurb
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1034160907

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Asser's Life of King Alfred by Asser Bishop of Sherborne Pdf

Alfred the Great (848 - 899) was a king in West Saxon and then the first king of the Anglo-Saxons, king of Britain. He spent his early career fighting Viking invasions, until in 878 he won a decisive victory against them, and then personally oversaw the conversion of the Viking leader to Christianity. He left a legacy for being gracious, rational, peaceable, and generally working to improve the overall quality of people's lives. This biography was composed by Asser (d. 909), a Welsh monk and later bishop. This large print version (14 point size) of Asser's work is from, "Asser's life of King Alfred, translated by Albert Stanburrough Cook (1853-1927); Boston, New York: Ginn and company 1906." The original footnotes are preserved, and surviving illustrations of King Alfred on coins and in artwork are included.

Author : David Horspool
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 53,8 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.

Author : Alfred (King of England)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 48,6 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