The Life and Times of Alfred the Great
by Douglas Woodruff
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The story of Alfred the Great, a doughty warrior, impressive administrator and dedicated scholar who succeeded in defeating formidable foes to become the founder of the English monarchy.Tags
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Tells the story of Alfred the Great, King of Wessex. Despite small resources, this singular man - a doughty warrior, impressive administrator and dedicated scholar - succeeded in defeating formidable foes and becoming the founder of the English monarchy.
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- Canonical title
- The Life and Times of Alfred the Great
- Original publication date
- 1974
- People/Characters
- Alfred the Great (King of England); Asser (biographer of Alfred the Great); Edward the Elder; Ethelwulf, King of England (father of Alfred the Great); Gregory I, ca. 540-604; Guthrum
- Important places
- Wessex; Mercia
- Dedication
- To Penelope Betjeman,
in memory of her Wantage years - First words
- Introduction [by Antonia Fraser]
No other king in our history has been honoured with the epithey of Great.
Among the many thousands of kings and emperors and other rulers of men in our Western civilisation, posterity and the common consent of mankind has been most sparing in conferring the splendid epithet 'the Great'. - Quotations
- For the Anglo-Saxons, as for other Germanic peoples, law rested on custom, on agreed and immemorial usage, and a rule, when he acted as a law-giver, saw himself as setting out what the law was, not as creating it.
[p. 104] - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)A longer historical perspective, and all the scientific historical work of the last hundred years, have done nothing to diminish the justice of that high acclaim.
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- Genres
- History, Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 942.01 — History & geography History of Europe England and Wales England Anglo-Saxon B.C. 55 - A.D. 1066
- LCC
- DA153 .W6 — History of Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania Great Britain History of Great Britain England History By period Early and medieval to 1485 Celts. Romans. Saxons. Danes. Normans
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- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
- 3
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