The Reign Of Alfred The Great
Rory Naismith
Alfred the Great is most celebrated English ruler of pre-Conquest period, remembered for staving off Vikings, eventually bringing surviving territories under a single king and initiating an ambitious programme intellectual revival (general studies include Abels 1998; Wormald 2004; Pratt 2007a; Discenza Szarmach 2015; key sources are translated in Keynes Lapidge 1983). He has entered into popular consciousness as figurehead culture nationhood: ‘cult Alfred’, which grew up around him sixteenth century persists to present day, historical phenomenon itself (Keynes 1999a; Yorke 2003; Parker 2007; Stanley 1981).
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