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Alfred the Great : papers from the eleventh-centenary conferences / edited by Timothy Reuter.

Title: Alfred the Great : papers from the eleventh-centenary conferences / edited by Timothy Reuter.
Publication: Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2003], ©2003.

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Additional Authors

Reuter, Timothy.

Description

xvi, 387 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Studies in early medieval Britain ; 3

Uniform Title

Studies in early medieval Britain ; 3.

Subject

Note

Papers originally delivered at a conference at the Wessex Medieval Center, University of Southampton, Sept. 1999 and in London in Oct. 1999.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction. Placing King Alfred / James Campbell -- The sources. Asser's reading / Michael Lapidge -- Alfredian arithmetic - Asserian architectonics / David Howlett -- The Anglo-Saxon chronicle and the idea of Rome in Alfredian literature / Susan Irvin -- Ædificia nova: treasures of Alfred's reign / Leslie Webster -- Alfredian literature. The Alfredian canon revisited: one 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 -- Alfred the Great, the micel hœðen 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.

ISBN

075460957X (alk. paper)

LCCN

2002071148

OCLC

ocm49805670

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Columbia University Libraries