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Alfred the Great: Papers from the Eleventh-Centenary Conferences - Studies in Early Medieval Britain and Ireland 1st edition
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Alfred the Great: Papers from the Eleventh-Centenary Conferences - Studies in Early Medieval Britain and Ireland
1999 marked the eleven-hundredth anniversary of the death of Alfred the Great, and to mark this event, two international conferences were held to re-evaluate and contextualise Alfred's achievements and the developments of his reign. This volume includes papers given at both events and provides substantial assessments, by leading scholars, of issues of source-criticism, of the large corpus of Old English literature associated with Alfred and of developments in government and society in late ninth-century England. It also explores how Alfred and his kingdom related to the wider geo-political and cultural situation in the British isles and continental Europe, and closes with a substantial survey of the uses and shifts in Alfred's reputation in the centuries following his death. This substantial and wide ranging volume will become a standard reference work for anyone interested in Old English literature or Anglo-Saxon history, and will set the pattern of future scholarly debate.
404 pages
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | March 6, 2017 |
| ISBN13 | 9781138248304 |
| Publishers | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Pages | 404 |
| Dimensions | 150 × 220 × 10 mm · 750 g |
| Language | English |
| Editor | Reuter, Timothy |
