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Alfred the Great
David Horspool
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Description for Alfred the Great
Paperback. The life of the warrior king of England whose remains have sensationally just been discovered in Winchester. Num Pages: 272 pages, 40 illustrations. BIC Classification: HBLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 124 x 197 x 20. Weight in Grams: 264.
The discovery earlier this year in Winchester of human remains, almost certainly of Alfred the Great or his eldest son, has sparked renewed interest in England's most celebrated monarch. King Alfred's historical achievements, saving his kingdom from invasion by marauding Vikings and attempting both to expand and educate his realm, made him the founding mythic figure of England. The only English sovereign ever to be called 'the Great' - despite the fact that he was never even king of all England - Alfred used to be remembered as much through the stories told about him as ... Read more
The discovery earlier this year in Winchester of human remains, almost certainly of Alfred the Great or his eldest son, has sparked renewed interest in England's most celebrated monarch. King Alfred's historical achievements, saving his kingdom from invasion by marauding Vikings and attempting both to expand and educate his realm, made him the founding mythic figure of England. The only English sovereign ever to be called 'the Great' - despite the fact that he was never even king of all England - Alfred used to be remembered as much through the stories told about him as ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Amberley Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Chalford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781445639369
SKU
V9781445639369
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99-2
About David Horspool
David Horspool read Ancient and Modern History at Oxford. He is an editor, with a prime responsibility for history, at the Times Literary Supplement. He is also the author of The English Rebel ('Full of wit and scholarship' Peter Ackroyd, The Times; 'Highly impressive' Noel Malcolm, The Sunday Telegraph) and is currently writing a new biography of Richard III for ... Read more
Reviews for Alfred the Great
Crucial reading'
THE GUARDIAN
Entertaining, pithy and thought-provoking'
HELEN CASTOR Deftly dismantles the image of Alfred'
THE SUNDAY TIMES
Horspool's scholarship and knowledge of the period create a digestible overview'
THE OBSERVER
Horspool goes back to the original sources and reinterprets them... The result is Alfred's presentation less as a stock figure of ... Read more
THE GUARDIAN
Entertaining, pithy and thought-provoking'
HELEN CASTOR Deftly dismantles the image of Alfred'
THE SUNDAY TIMES
Horspool's scholarship and knowledge of the period create a digestible overview'
THE OBSERVER
Horspool goes back to the original sources and reinterprets them... The result is Alfred's presentation less as a stock figure of ... Read more