From Alfred the Great to Stephen
Author: R. H. C. Davis
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 1991-01-01
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9781852850456
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTwenty-two collected essays on late Anglo-Saxon and Norman history.
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Alfred the Great
Author: Richard Abels
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-11-26
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13: 1317900413
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis biography of Alfred the Great, king of the West Saxons (871-899), combines a sensitive reading of the primary sources with a careful evaluation of the most recent scholarly research on the history and archaeology of ninth-century England. Alfred emerges from the pages of this biography as a great warlord, an effective and inventive ruler, and a passionate scholar whose piety and intellectual curiosity led him to sponsor a cultural and spiritual renaissance. Alfred's victories on the battlefield and his sweeping administrative innovations not only preserved his native Wessex from viking conquest, but began the process of political consolidation that would culminate in the creation of the kingdom of England. Alfred the Great: War, Kingship and Culture in Anglo-Saxon England strips away the varnish of later interpretations to recover the historical Alfredpragmatic, generous, brutal, pious, scholarly within the context of his own age.
Conquered England
Author: George Garnett
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2007-01-25
Total Pages: 420
ISBN-13: 019820793X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGeorge Garnett shows the power of an idea - William the Conqueror's claim to succeed Edward the Confessor on the throne of England in 1066 - to shape the practice of Royal succession and the structure of aristocratic land tenure in post-Conquest England. In terms of the king's novel powers over the tenure of land, it created a kingdom which was unique in medieval Europe, with profound political consequences, and which shaped a whole society.
Anglo-Saxon England: Volume 28
Author: Michael Lapidge
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2000-06-22
Total Pages: 464
ISBN-13: 9780521652032
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume is framed by articles that throw interesting light on the achievement and reputation of the greatest of Anglo-Saxon kings - Alfred.
The Political Thought of King Alfred the Great
Author: David Pratt
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2007-05-31
Total Pages: 437
ISBN-13: 1139463551
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is a comprehensive study of political thought at the court of King Alfred the Great (871–99). It explains the extraordinary burst of royal learned activity focused on inventive translations from Latin into Old English attributed to Alfred's own authorship. A full exploration of context establishes these texts as part of a single discourse which placed Alfred himself at the heart of all rightful power and authority. A major theme is the relevance of Frankish and other European experiences, as sources of expertise and shared concerns, and for important contrasts with Alfredian thought and behaviour. Part I assesses Alfred's rule against West Saxon structures, showing the centrality of the royal household in the operation of power. Part II offers an intimate analysis of the royal texts, developing far-reaching implications for Alfredian kingship, communication and court culture. Comparative in approach, the book places Alfred's reign at the forefront of wider European trends in aristocratic life.
The Anarchy of King Stephen's Reign
Author: Edmund King
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: 1994-09-22
Total Pages: 370
ISBN-13: 019159072X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe reign of King Stephen (1135-54) is famous as a period of weak government, as Stephen and his rival the Empress Matilda contended for power. This is a study of medieval kingship at its most vulnerable. It also shows how individuals and institutions enabled the monarchy to survive. A contemporary chronicler described the reign as "nineteen long winters in which Christ and his saints were asleep". Historians today refer to it simply as 'the Anarchy'. The weakness of government was the result of a disputed succession. Stephen lost control over Normandy, the Welsh marches, and much of the North. Contemporaries noted as signs of weakness the tyranny of the lords of castles, and the break-down of coinage. Stephen remained king for his lifetime, but leading churchmen and laymen negotiated a settlement whereby the crown passed to the Empress's son the future Henry II. This volume by leading scholars gives an original and up-to-date analysis of these major themes, and explains how the English monarchy was able to survive the Anarchy of King Stephen's reign.
Old English Prose
Author: Paul E. Szarmach
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-12-13
Total Pages: 570
ISBN-13: 1000525139
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 2001. With the decline of formalism and its predilection for Old English poetry, Old English prose is leaving the periphery and moving into the center of literary and cultural discussion. The extensive corpus of Old English prose lends many texts of various kinds to the current debates over literary theory and its multiple manifestations. The purpose of this collection is to assist the growing interest in Old English prose by providing essays that help establish the foundations for considered study and offer models and examples of special studies. Both retrospective and current in its examples, this collection can serve as a "first book" for an introduction to study, particularly suitable for courses that seek to entertain such issues as authorship, texts and textuality, source criticism, genre, and forms of historical criticism as a significant part of a broad, cultural teaching (and research) plan.
Alfred the Great
Author: Justin Pollard
Publisher: John Murray
Published: 2006-06-29
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlfred is the only English king ever to be called 'Great'. It was not a title given by political supporters, not the sycophantic gift of an official biographer, nor a self-styled title. It was the gift of history. Justin Pollard's enthralling, authoritative account befits Alfred - a soldier, a scholar and statesman like no other in English history. His rule spanned troubled times. His shores were under constant threat from Viking marauders and he faced turmoil at home. Soon after he began his rule a conspiracy erupted and he was hounded out of his kingdom into solitary exile in forests and fens. But his ambition was not felled by adversity. Alone in this damp, dangerous, half-world of bogs and quicksand Alfred looked within and found the motivation to create a new type of nation. Drawing on the latest historical, textual and archaeological research Justin Pollard radically reassesses the key moments in Alfred's life. He offers a new interpretation of what caused this most remarkable king to begin the formation of England and how it coloured the subsequent history of the Western World down to the present day.
Alfred the Great Special Sales
Author: Justin Pollard
Publisher:
Published: 2006-06-29
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ISBN-13: 9781473636088
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Norman Conquest in English History
Author: George Garnett
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2021-01-21
Total Pages: 491
ISBN-13: 0198726163
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAt a time when the Battle of Hastings and Magna Carta have become common currency in political debate, this study of the role played by the Norman Conquest in English history between the eleventh and the seventeenth centuries is both timely and relevant.
