Medievalists.net » Alfred http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Sun, 06 Dec 2015 23:06:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 Alfred the Great: Viking Wars and Military Reforms http://www.medievalists.net/2012/12/09/alfred-the-great-viking-wars-and-military-reforms/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/12/09/alfred-the-great-viking-wars-and-military-reforms/#comments Sun, 09 Dec 2012 21:31:29 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=37857 The purpose of this piece is to examine Alfred the Greats Viking wars and to ascertain why his kingdom of Wessex survived the Viking onslaught in the ninth century.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/12/09/alfred-the-great-viking-wars-and-military-reforms/feed/ 0 Anglo-Saxon law and numismatics: A reassessment in the light of Patrick Wormald’s the Making of English Law http://www.medievalists.net/2012/10/22/anglo-saxon-law-and-numismatics-a-reassessment-in-the-light-of-patrick-wormalds-the-making-of-english-law/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/10/22/anglo-saxon-law-and-numismatics-a-reassessment-in-the-light-of-patrick-wormalds-the-making-of-english-law/#comments Mon, 22 Oct 2012 14:32:48 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=36630 In this article, I wish to return to the references to coinage in the Anglo-Saxon laws in the light of Patrick Wormald's important research on the laws, especially his The Making of English Law: King Alfred to the Twelfth Century, which has made this difficult evidence much more penetrable to the non-specialist.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/10/22/anglo-saxon-law-and-numismatics-a-reassessment-in-the-light-of-patrick-wormalds-the-making-of-english-law/feed/ 0 The burh of Wallingford and its context in Wessex http://www.medievalists.net/2012/05/20/the-burh-of-wallingford-and-its-context-in-wessex/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/05/20/the-burh-of-wallingford-and-its-context-in-wessex/#comments Sun, 20 May 2012 23:08:01 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=31984 There are many reasons for holding that the 31 burhs listed in the Burghal Hidage constituted a system in its fullest sense. One of the most telling of these is that the burghal territories of these burhs – the areas assigned to them for their upkeep – form a spatial jigsaw whose individual elements interlock with each other within the shires or their precursors.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/05/20/the-burh-of-wallingford-and-its-context-in-wessex/feed/ 0 King Alfred, Mercia and London, 874-886: a reassessment http://www.medievalists.net/2011/12/05/king-alfred-mercia-and-london-874-886-a-reassessment/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/12/05/king-alfred-mercia-and-london-874-886-a-reassessment/#comments Mon, 05 Dec 2011 22:29:53 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=27707 The creation of a new burh in London is seen as a natural development of the system of burhs which had been established by Alfred all over Wessex in the previous two years, following his victory over Guthrum’s forces at Edington

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2011/12/05/king-alfred-mercia-and-london-874-886-a-reassessment/feed/ 0 Alfred the Great: The Most Perfect Man in History? http://www.medievalists.net/2011/11/28/alfred-the-great-the-most-perfect-man-in-history/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/11/28/alfred-the-great-the-most-perfect-man-in-history/#comments Mon, 28 Nov 2011 20:12:57 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=27524 Barbara Yorke considers the reputation of King Alfred the Great - and the enduring cult around his life and legend.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2011/09/05/alfreds-historia-ecclesiastica/feed/ 0 Fragments of Boethius: the reconstruction of the Cotton manuscript of the Alfredian text http://www.medievalists.net/2011/06/05/fragments-of-boethius-the-reconstruction-of-the-cotton-manuscript-of-the-alfredian-text/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/06/05/fragments-of-boethius-the-reconstruction-of-the-cotton-manuscript-of-the-alfredian-text/#comments Sun, 05 Jun 2011 14:58:39 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=21527 Fragments of Boethius: the reconstruction of the Cotton manuscript of the Alfredian text Irvine, Susan Anglo-Saxon England, 34 (2005) Abstract ‘These fragments I have shored against my ruins’: T. S. Eliot’s metaphor in The Waste Land evokes the evanescent frailty of human existence and worldly endeavour with a poignancy that the Anglo-Saxons would surely have appreciated. […]

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2011/06/05/fragments-of-boethius-the-reconstruction-of-the-cotton-manuscript-of-the-alfredian-text/feed/ 0 Finding Cynuit http://www.medievalists.net/2011/04/16/finding-cynuit/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/04/16/finding-cynuit/#comments Sat, 16 Apr 2011 19:54:13 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=19719 Finding Cynuit By Nick Arnold Published Online (2008) Introduction: Early in 878 an army of supporters of King Alfred of Wessex found themselves trapped in a fort by a Viking army. The siege that followed came at a time of desperate danger for Wessex. Another Viking army led by Guthrum had driven King Alfred and […]

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2011/04/16/finding-cynuit/feed/ 0 The development of London by King Alfred: a reassessment http://www.medievalists.net/2011/03/10/the-development-of-london-by-king-alfred-a-reassessment/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/03/10/the-development-of-london-by-king-alfred-a-reassessment/#comments Fri, 11 Mar 2011 03:43:52 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=18202 The development of London by King Alfred: a reassessment By Jeremy Haslam Transactions of the London and Middlesex Archaeological Society, Vol.61 (2010) Abstract: A model is presented which characterises the physical, spatial and functional development of London as a new burh of King Alfred in or soon after late AD 879, when he assumed control […]

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2011/03/10/the-development-of-london-by-king-alfred-a-reassessment/feed/ 0 The Later Pre-Conquest Boroughs and their Defences http://www.medievalists.net/2011/02/27/the-later-pre-conquest-boroughs-and-their-defences/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/02/27/the-later-pre-conquest-boroughs-and-their-defences/#comments Sun, 27 Feb 2011 19:52:12 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=17632 The Later Pre-Conquest Boroughs and their Defences RADFORD, C. A. RALEGH Medieval Archaeology Vol. 14 (1970) Abstract ‘For nearly two centuries before the Norman Conquest the burh, or defensible centre of population, is often mentioned in contemporary documents. The typical burhof the eleventh century was plainly an artificial creation in which men of different lords […]

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