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Translation of the Life of King Alfred
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'Alfred Smyth's The Medieval Life of King Alfred the Great is a pathbreaking work...a sophisticated introduction and study of the entire field of Alfredian biography, ancient and modern...The Medieval Life of King Alfred the Great also serves as an excellent introduction to the text of the Life itself and to the controversies surrounding its creation and history.' - Professor Daniel Melia, University of California, Berkeley
'Alfred Smyth's new translation and commentary challenges consensus opinion at every level...an extensive commentary relates the Life to the new and still-developing awareness of historical writing in the late Anglo-Saxon period...Smyth's text asks new questions and provides new answers, offering a more complex account of the origins of England, and of English History, than has been possible to date.' - Tom Shippey, Saint Louis University, Missouri
'...this translation...is useful for presenting a version without many of the previous editorial emendations...' - J.L. Leland, Choice
Reviews from previous book:
'Smyth's book, then, must stand as the definitive account of the reign.' - Peter Ackroyd, The Times
'This is a glorious book. It rescues a great English ruler from some of the more obtuse concepts and prejudices of our own time, and builds more carefully on ninth-century foundations than any other biography yet published.' - Eric Christiansen, The Spectator
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Book Title: The Medieval Life of King Alfred the Great
Book Subtitle: A Translation and Commentary on the Text Attributed to Asser
Authors: Alfred P. Smyth
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230287228
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Alfred P. Smyth 2002
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-333-69917-1Published: 28 November 2001
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-40228-1Published: 28 November 2001
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-28722-8Published: 28 November 2001
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 280
Topics: History of Britain and Ireland, History of Medieval Europe, Historiography and Method, Ancient History