Alfred the Great: Papers from the Eleventh-Centenary Conferences

Timothy Reuter (Curatore)

Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2003

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.

• Curatore: Timothy Reuter
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Collana: Studies in Early Medieval Britain and Ireland
• Anno: 2003
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 404 p.
• Dimensioni: 234 x 156 mm
• Peso: 453 gr.
• EAN: 9780754609575

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