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Title: Alfred the Great: Asser's Life of King Alfred and Other Contemporary Sources (Penguin Classics) by John Asser, Simon Keynes ISBN: 0-14-044409-2 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Summary: Alfred for High School Students
Comment: The author of this book (Asser) was a contemporary of King Alfred's and was brought to Wessex (Alfred's kingdom) in the ninth century as part of Alfred's plan to improve education and culture in Anglo-Saxon England. The text is highly readable and gives students an eyewitness account of Alfred's kingship: military successes and failures (esp. fighting the Vikings), advancement of English culture and education, consolidation of the seven kingdoms, and cultivation of Christian kingship in the Early Middle Ages. This kind of book is especially fun for students to read as it shows us "real history," including things such as Alfred's 20-year fight with some sort of intestinal disorder. We see Alfred as a man, not just an aloof, wooden figure that died long ago. This edition also includes maps, geneological charts of the Carolingian (i.e., "French") kings and the English kings up to Alfred, and a 29-page introduction by Simon Keynes and Michael Lapidge, which provides excellent background on the period in which Alfred and Asser lived. Also included are excerpts from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, which was begun in Alfred's reign, extracts of Alfred's own writings and translations, and miscellaneous primary sources such as letters, books, and documents of the era. These items make good backgrounding for teachers. When this biography is read together with the Arthurian legend, it helps students to compare the real and the ideal kings of the Middle Ages.
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Title: Ecclesiastical History of the English People With Bede's Letter to Egbert and Cuthberts Letter on the Death of Bede (Penguin Classics) by Bede, D.H. Farmer ISBN: 014044565X Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 1991 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: History of the Kings of Britain (Classics S.) by Geoffrey of Monmouth, Lewis Thorpe ISBN: 0140441700 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 1977 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Two Lives of Charlemagne (Penguin Classics, L213) by Lewis G. M. Thorpe, Einhard, Einhard Vita Karoli Magni Imperatoris, Balbulus Gesta Karoli Magni Notker, Notker the Stammerer ISBN: 0140442138 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 1969 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Alfred the Great the King and His England by E. S. Duckett ISBN: 0226167798 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1956 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: The Age of Bede (Penguin Classics) by Bede, J. F. Webb, D. H. Farmer ISBN: 014044727X Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 1998 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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