King Alfred: Burnt Cakes and Other Legends: Profiles in History
Autor David Horspoolen Limba Engleză Hardback – 31 oct 2006
When the BBC ran a poll in 2001 to name the greatest Briton, Alfred, a ninth-century monarch, was the only king to make the top 20. Also the only English sovereign to be called "the Great," Alfred used to be remembered as much through folklore as through his accomplishments.
Horspool sees Alfred as inextricably linked to the legends and stories that surround him, and rather than attempting to separate the myth from the "reality," he explores how both came together to provide a historical figure that was all things to all men. This book offers a vivid picture of Alfred's England, but also of the way that history is written, and how much myth has had to do with that.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780674023208
ISBN-10: 067402320X
Pagini: 228
Dimensiuni: 148 x 213 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Editura: Harvard University Press
Seria Profiles in History
ISBN-10: 067402320X
Pagini: 228
Dimensiuni: 148 x 213 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Editura: Harvard University Press
Seria Profiles in History
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Recenzii
As the title suggests, the author of this book, who is editor of the "Times Literary Supplement", has not written an ordinary biography, for few other historical figures are surrounded by so many myths as Alfred the Great, king of the West Saxons (871-899)...Because "King Alfred" deals primarily with popular myths, it is appropriate that it was written for a popular audience. Yet, Horspool's thorough familiarity with the sources, both primary and secondary, make it a work of solid scholarship.--Gilbert M. Bogner "The Historian "
As the title suggests, the author of this book, who is editor of the "Times Literary Supplement", has not written an ordinary biography, for few other historical figures are surrounded by so many myths as Alfred the Great...Horspool's thorough familiarity with the sources, both primary and secondary, make ["King Alfred"] a work of solid scholarship...undergraduates, and even higher-level academics, will also benefit from its lessons: that history is a past constructed by people, that it is often based as much on preconception as it is on evidence, and that the very evidence we use to create history was constructed by people in their own times for their own purposes.--Gilbert M. Bogner"The Historian" (06/01/2008)
As the title suggests, the author of this book, who is editor of the "Times Literary Supplement", has not written an ordinary biography, for few other historical figures are surrounded by so many myths as Alfred the Great...Horspool's thorough familiarity with the sources, both primary and secondary, make ["King Alfred"] a work of solid scholarship...undergraduates, and even higher-level academics, will also benefit from its lessons: that history is a past constructed by people, that it is often based as much on preconception as it is on evidence, and that the very evidence we use to create history was constructed by people in their own times for their own purposes.--Gilbert M. Bogner"The Historian" (06/01/2008)