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268 pages : 25 cm, Includes bibliographical references and index, 1. Alfred's Dynasty and its Forebears -- 2. Alfred's Parents and Family -- 3. Alfred's Visits to Rome in 853 and 855, and his Boyhood to 866 -- 4. The Chief Places of Christian and Pagan Europe: trade, forts and the origins of towns before the 860s -- 5. Pagan Europe: Denmark and the Franks before the 860s -- 6. Christian Europe: France and the Vikings before the 860s -- 7. 865-872, Battles and Devastation: the Start of Alfred's Reign -- 8. 872-877, England under Viking Domination -- 9. 878-880, The Kingdom Lost and Won -- 10. Expansion and Consolidation -- 11. Reconstruction and Defence -- 12. The Church and Culture -- 13. 892-899, The Third Crisis and Final Peace -- 14. Postscript: the Kingdom of England -- 15. Alfred in Later Centuries -- Appendix: Alfred the Great in books, plays and poetical dramas of the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Sturdy, David
- Publisher
- London : Constable
- Published
- 1995
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780094765702
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Fiction, Memoir, History
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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