A Companion To Alfred The Great

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004283765
Total Pages : 483 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Alfred the Great written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2014-12-04 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eleven major scholars of the Anglo-Saxon period consider Alfred the Great, his cultural milieu, and his achievements. With revised or revived views of the Alfredian revival, the contributors help set the agenda for future work on a most challenging period. The collection features the methods of history, art history, and literature in a newer key and with an interdisciplinary view on a period that offers less evidence than inference. Major themes linking the essays include authorship, translation practice and theory, patristic influence, Continental connections, and advances in textual criticism. The Alfredian moment has always surprised scholars because of its intellectual reach and its ambition. The contributors to this collection describe how we must now understand that ambition.

Author : Thomas Leitch
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1444397311
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Alfred Hitchcock written by Thomas Leitch and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most comprehensive volume ever published on Alfred Hitchcock, covering his career and legacy as well as the broader cultural and intellectual contexts of his work. Contains thirty chapters by the leading Hitchcock scholars Covers his long career, from his earliest contributions to other directors’ silent films to his last uncompleted last film Details the enduring legacy he left to filmmakers and audiences alike

Author : Pope Gregory I
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pastoral Care written by Pope Gregory I and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-11-22 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pastoral Care, or The Book of the Pastoral Rule, is a treatise on the responsibilities of the clergy written by Pope Gregory I in which he contrasted the role of bishops as pastors of their flock with their position as nobles of the church: the definitive statement of the nature of the episcopal office. Gregory enjoined parish priests to possess strict personal, intellectual and moral standards which were considered, in certain quarters, to be unrealistic and beyond ordinary capacities. The influence of the book, however, was vast and became one of the most influential works on the topic ever written. It was translated and distributed to every bishop within the Byzantine Empire.

Author : Richard Abels
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317900405
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alfred the Great written by Richard Abels and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-26 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 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.

Author : Alfred (King of England)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Whole Works of King Alfred the Great: with Preliminary Essays Illustrative of the History, Arts, and Manners, of the Ninth Century written by Alfred (King of England) and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles H. Smith
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022662210X
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Alfred Russel Wallace Companion written by Charles H. Smith and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2019-06-20 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Alfred Russel Wallace (1823–1913) was one of the most famous scientists in the world at the time of his death at the age of ninety, today he is known to many as a kind of “almost-Darwin,” a secondary figure relegated to the footnotes of Darwin’s prodigious insights. But this diminution could hardly be less justified. Research into the life of this brilliant naturalist and social critic continues to produce new insights into his significance to history and his role in helping to shape modern thought. Wallace declared his eight years of exploration in southeast Asia to be “the central and controlling incident” of his life. As 2019 marks one hundred and fifty years since the publication of The Malay Archipelago, Wallace’s canonical work chronicling his epic voyage, this collaborative book gathers an interdisciplinary array of writers to celebrate Wallace’s remarkable life and diverse scholarly accomplishments. Wallace left school at the age of fourteen and was largely self-taught, a voracious curiosity and appetite for learning sustaining him throughout his long life. After years as a surveyor and builder, in 1848 he left Britain to become a professional natural history collector in the Amazon, where he spent four years. Then, in 1854, he departed for the Malay Archipelago. It was on this voyage that he constructed a theory of natural selection similar to the one Charles Darwin was developing, and the two copublished papers on the subject in 1858, some sixteen months before the release of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species. But as the contributors to the Companion show, this much-discussed parallel evolution in thought was only one epoch in an extraordinary intellectual life. When Wallace returned to Britain in 1862, he commenced a career of writing on a huge range of subjects extending from evolutionary studies and biogeography to spiritualism and socialism. An Alfred Russel Wallace Companion provides something of a necessary reexamination of the full breadth of Wallace’s thought—an attempt to describe not only the history and present state of our understanding of his work, but also its implications for the future.

Author : Asser
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1291481451
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alfred the Great written by Asser and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-07-07 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life of one of the greatest english kings, politically, militarily, and constitutionally, by a member of his court

Author : Justin Pollard
Publisher : John Murray
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alfred the Great written by Justin Pollard and published by John Murray. This book was released on 2006-06-29 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alfred was England's first king, and his rule spanned troubled times. As his shores sat under constant threat from Viking marauders, his life was similarly imperiled by conspiracies in his own court. He was an extraordinary character - a soldier, scholar, and statesman like no other in English history - and out of adversity he forged a new kind of nation. Justin Pollard's enthralling account strips back centuries of myth to reveal the individual behind the legend. He offers a radical new interpretation of what inspired Alfred to create England and how it has colored the nation's history to the present day.

Author : Eleanor Shipley Duckett
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226167798
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alfred the Great written by Eleanor Shipley Duckett and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1956 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recreates thye life of the ninth-century English king, scholar, warrior and lawmaker.

Author : David Sturdy
Publisher : Trafalgar Square Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alfred the Great written by David Sturdy and published by Trafalgar Square Publishing. This book was released on 1996 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of King Alfred the Great, which examines the myths and legends that have surrounded the philosopher-king since the 12th century, whose learning and piety were probably even more remarkable than his heroic stature and military acumen.