Project Gutenberg 2025-07-22 Public domain in the USA. 481 Bowker, Alfred 1870 1944 Austin, Alfred 1835 1913 Besant, Walter 1836 1901 Besant, Sir Walter Maurice, Walter Browne, G. F. (George Forrest) 1833 1930 Browne, George Forrest Earle, John 1824 1903 Harrison, Frederic 1831 1923 Loftie, W. J. (William John) 1839 1911 Loftie, William John Markham, Clements R. (Clements Robert), Sir 1830 1916 Markham, Sir Clements R. (Clements Robert) Markham, Clements Robert, Sir Oman, Charles 1860 1946 Oman, Charles William Chadwick Oman, C. W. C. (Charles William Chadwick) Pollock, Frederick 1845 1937 Pollock, Frederick, Sir, bart. Apprentice of Lincoln’s Inn 03014508 Alfred the Great : $b containing chapters on his life and times $aLondon :$bAdam & Charles Black, $c1899. MWS and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) "Alfred the Great: containing chapters on his life and times" by Alfred Bowker et al. is a historical compendium written in the late 19th century. It assembles essays by prominent scholars, alongside an introduction and a commemorative poem, to portray King Alfred’s life, reign, and legacy across warfare, law, religion, education, culture, and nation-building. The opening of the volume offers a dedication to the Queen and a laudatory poem casting Alfred as a model of wisdom and virtue, followed by the editor’s preface explaining the millennium commemoration, the aim to spread accessible knowledge, and the call for a national memorial in Winchester. Sir Walter Besant’s introduction sketches the fragmented Anglo-Saxon world and character, traces the Danish invasions, and highlights Alfred’s turnaround from Athelney to Ethandune, his restoration of London, creation of a navy, lawmaking grounded in Christian ethics, revival of schools and monasteries, fostering of foreign ties and trade, and the founding of English prose and national spirit. Frederic Harrison then begins by celebrating Alfred as an exemplar among rulers, recounting his stubborn wars, the Peace of Wedmore, the reorganisation of army and fleet, and the strategic elevation of London. The next chapter opens with Alfred’s early years: pilgrimages to Rome, his father Ethelwulf’s devotional gifts to the Roman churches, the cultural context of the Leonine City, his love of vernacular poetry, and the spark for book-learning kindled—after a childhood steeped in hunting and song—by a treasured illuminated book. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://archive.org/details/alfredgreatconta00bowkiala 20230315175324bowker 1899 GB Reading ease score: 63.5 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. en Alfred, King of England, 849-899 Great Britain -- History -- Alfred, 871-899 DA Text Category: Biographies Category: History - British Category: History - Medieval/Middle Ages Category: History - Royalty 461546 2025-07-30T08:40:05.346520 text/html 430261 2025-07-22T18:06:25 text/html 847599 2025-07-30T08:40:13.719405 application/epub+zip 847851 2025-07-30T08:40:07.215477 application/epub+zip 295180 2025-07-30T08:40:06.175452 application/epub+zip 1133592 2025-07-30T08:40:18.498366 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1066784 2025-07-30T08:40:12.865405 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 394830 2025-07-30T08:40:04.277477 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 374692 2025-07-22T18:06:25 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 20347 2025-07-30T08:40:18.719352 application/rdf+xml 12797 2025-07-30T08:40:06.495418 image/jpeg 2186 2025-07-30T08:40:06.319414 image/jpeg 868208 2025-07-30T08:40:05.419493 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia en.wikipedia en.wikipedia en.wikipedia en.wikipedia en.wikipedia en.wikipedia en.wikipedia en.wikipedia