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Alfred the Great: Asser's Life of King Alfred and Other Contemporary Sources

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This comprehensive collection includes Asser’s Life of Alfred, extracts from The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, and Alfred’s own writings, laws, and will.

Author(s): Asser; Alfred the Great; Simon Keynes; Michael Lapidge (transl.)
Series: Penguin Classics
Publisher: Penguin Books
Year: 1983

Language: English
Pages: 368

Contents
Preface
Introduction
I. Asser’s Life of King Alfred
II. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, 888-900
III. Extracts From the Writings of King Alfred
The preface to Werferth’s translation of Gregory*s Dialogues
From the translation of Gregory's Pastoral Care
From the translation of Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy
From the translation of Augustine's Soliloquies
From the prose translation of the Psalter
IV. Miscellaneous Sources For the Reign of King Alfred
Extracts from the laws of King Alfred
The treaty between Alfred and Guthrum
The will of King Alfred
King Alfred*s charter for Ealdorman Æthelhelm
The letter of Fulco, archbishop of Rheims, to King Alfred
Bishop Wulfsige s preface to the translation of Gregory*s Dialogues
Æthelweard's account of the closing years of Alfred's reign
Two acrostic poems on King Alfred
The Burghai Hidage
Appendix I: Alfred and the Cakes
Appendix II: The Alfred Jewel
Notes To Introduction And Text
Note on Further Reading
References
Index