Alfred the Great: The King and His England
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780226167794 (0226167798)
Publish date: October 15th 1958
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Pages no: 228
Edition language: English
Eleanor Shipley Duckett’s biography is a useful introduction to Alfred the Great, the Wessex monarch who effectively created the kingdom of England. She begins with a description of the politics of eighth-century England, a world of maneuvering between regional kingdoms and invading Viking armies. ...