Alfred the Great: Papers from the Eleventh-Centenary Conferences

by Reuter,Timothy; Reuter,Timothy

• ISBN13: 9780754609575
• ISBN10: 075460957X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-07-28
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This volume contains papers given at two conferences held to mark the eleven-hundredth anniversary of Alfred's death, that re-evaluate and contextualise Alfred's achievements and the developments of his reign. It also 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.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. vii
Preface	p. ix
Abbreviations	p. xi
List of illustrations	p. xv
Introduction
Placing King Alfred	p. 3
The Sources
Asser's reading	p. 27
Alfredian arithmetic--Asserian architectonics	p. 49
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and the idea of Rome in Alfredian literature	p. 63
AEdificia nova: treasures of Alfred's reign	p. 79
Alfredian Literature
The Alfredian canon revisited: one hundred years on	p. 107
The form and function of the preface in the poetry and prose of Alfred's reign	p. 121
The player king: identification and self-representation in King Alfred's writings	p. 137
Alfredian Government and Society
Alfredian government: the West Saxon inheritance	p. 153
The power of the written word: Alfredian England 871-899	p. 175
Alfred's coinage reforms in context	p. 199
The origin of Alfred's urban policies	p. 219
Alfred and London	p. 235
Succession and inheritance: a gendered perspective on Alfred's family history	p. 251
Alfred the Great, the micel hoeden here and the viking threat	p. 265
Alfred's new longships	p. 281
Alfred and Contemporary Rulership
Alfred's Carolingian contemporaries	p. 293
Alfred the Great and Arnulf of Carinthia: a comparison	p. 311
Alfred's contemporaries: Irish, Welsh, Scots and Breton	p. 323
The ruler as instructor, pastor and wise: Leo VI of Byzantium and Symeon of Bulgaria	p. 339
Alfred as Icon
Alfredism: the use and abuse of King Alfred's reputation in later centuries	p. 361
Index	p. 381
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