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The political thought of King Alfred the Great /
This book is a comprehensive study of political thought at the court of King Alfred the Great (871-99). It explains the extraordinary burst of royal learned activity focused on inventive translations from Latin into Old English attributed to Alfred's own authorship. A full exploration of contex...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Cambridge [UK] ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2007.
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| Collection: | Cambridge studies in medieval life and thought ;
4th ser., 67. |
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- Resources and extraction
- Royal lordship and secular office-holding
- Royal lordship and ecclesiastical office-holding
- The articulation of power under King Alfred's predecessors
- The impact of the Vikings
- The field of Alfredian knowledge
- The construction of Alfredian discourse
- Alfredian technology : books and Ædificia
- The Hierdeboc as a treatise of power
- The Domboc as a reorientation of royal law
- Tribulation and triumph in the first fifty psalms
- The search for a satisfactory consolation
- Seeing God as he is
- Conclusion
- Appendix : West Frankish deployment of Solomon's dream.