Alfred the Great: Papers from the Eleventh-Centenary Conferences
- ISBN-10
- 1351959530
- ISBN-13
- 9781351959537
- Series
- Alfred the Great
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 404
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2017-05-15
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Author
- Timothy Reuter
Description
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.
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