Medievalists.net » Asser 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 Did King Alfred write anything? http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/07/did-king-alfred-write-anything/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/07/did-king-alfred-write-anything/#comments Tue, 07 Jan 2014 22:52:34 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=46458 The author investigates the question of whether King Alfred translated Latin texts into English. According to the author, modern scholarship seems to conclude that Alfred did compose the extant translations of a number of texts, although there are questions about Alfred's linguistic and intellectual skills.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/08/05/decapitation-in-anglo-saxon-saints-lives/feed/ 0 All the Queen’s Men: Perceptions of Women in Power http://www.medievalists.net/2011/09/05/all-the-queen%e2%80%99s-men-perceptions-of-women-in-power/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/09/05/all-the-queen%e2%80%99s-men-perceptions-of-women-in-power/#comments Mon, 05 Sep 2011 20:09:20 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=25013 All the Queen’s Men: Perceptions of Women in Power Burkett, Mona Master’s Thesis, University of Minnesota, (2009) Abstract Throughout the middle Ages, women were in a subordinate position to their male counterparts. At the same time, however, they could also hold positions of authority that conferred power. This paradox, women who were both weak and […]

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2011/09/05/all-the-queen%e2%80%99s-men-perceptions-of-women-in-power/feed/ 0 Alfred’s Historia Ecclesiastica http://www.medievalists.net/2011/09/05/alfreds-historia-ecclesiastica/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/09/05/alfreds-historia-ecclesiastica/#comments Mon, 05 Sep 2011 17:11:21 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=24990 Alfred’s Historia Ecclesiastica Uijttewaal, B.T. B.A. Thesis, Universiteit Utrecht (2011) Abstract The “Eng­lish” had been punished by God through the arrival of the Vikings. The British before them, had lapsed in their faith and been sent the scourge of the Anglo-Saxons. This was the message of king Alfred at the end of the 9th century […]

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