Alfred the Great
Timothy Reuter
Contents: Foreword Introduction: Placing King Alfred, James Campbell The sources: Asser's reading, Michael Lapidge A+lfredian arithmetic, Asserian architectonics, David Howlett Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and the idea of Rome in Alfredian literature, Susan Irvine A+dificia nova: treasures Alfred's reign, Leslie Webster literature: canon revisited: a hundred years on, Janet Bately form function preface poetry prose Allen J. Frantzen player king: identification self-representation writings, Malcolm Godden government society: government: west Saxon inheritance, Nicholas Brooks power written word: England 871-899, Simon Keynes coinage reforms context, Mark Blackburn origin urban policies, Hill Alfred London, Derek Keene Succession inheritance: gendered perspective on family history, Pauline Stafford What 'Great heathen army'? Great, Micel HA|A en Here Viking threat, Richard Abels new longships, Edwin Joyce Gifford contemporary rulership: Carolingian contemporaries, L. Nelson Great Arnulf Carinthia: comparison, Anton Scharer contemporaries: Irish, Welsh, Scots Breton, Wendy Davies ruler as instructor, pastor wise: Leo VI Byzantium Symeon Bulgaria, Jonathan Shepard icon: Alfredism: use abuse reputation later centuries, Barbara Yorke.
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