

An edition of Alfred the Great (1956)
By Eleanor Shipley Duckett
Publish Date
1956
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Language
eng
Pages
220
Description:
This book recreates the life of the ninth-century English king, scholar, warrior and lawmaker. It has three aims: to do what it may in spreading among us the knowledge of this king who did so much for his England and his world; to place him in his setting -- Saxon, Celtic, and Continental; and to build his story on simple lines, which rest nevertheless upon a foundation suggested by the sources given at its close. - Foreword.
subjects: Anglo-Saxons, Biography, History, Kings and rulers
People: Alfred King of England (849-899)
Places: England, Great Britain, Wessex
Times: Alfred, 871-899, Biography