[Ebook free] Alfred the Great: War, Culture and Kingship in Anglo-Saxon England
• Richard Abels •
| #104642 in Books | Routledge | 1998 | 1998-09-30 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.47 x.69 x5.41l,.93 | File Name: 0582040477 | 392 pages |
||43 of 43 people found the following review helpful.| Captures even the smell of "the burnt cakes"|By Mark Howells|Alfred, being the only English monarch styled "the Great", is a notoriously difficult subject to write history about. The Victorian cult of Alfred made him a marked man for the debunkers of the Dead White European Male focus of history. Attempts at an even-handed review of the Wessex king's life are fraught with|||'...based on wide knowledge, and not infrequent reconsideration, of the sources...this is a most useful book'. English Historical 'Abels' Alfred is a remarkable man...made believable, intriguing, relevant... this is a book for anyone who en
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'...
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