TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bowker,Alfred
AU  - Austin,Alfred
AU  - Besant,Walter
AU  - Browne,G.F.
AU  - Earle,John
AU  - Harrison,Frederic
AU  - Loftie,W.J.
AU  - Markham,Clements R.,Sir
AU  - Oman,Charles
AU  - Pollock,Frederick
TI  - Alfred the Great
AV  - DA 
PY  - 2025///
CY  - Salt Lake City, UT
PB  - Project Gutenberg
KW  - Alfred, King of England, 849-899
KW  - Great Britain -- History -- Alfred, 871-899
N1  - Release date is 2025-07-22; 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.); Originally published; London: Adam & Charles Black, 1899
N2  - "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.)
UR  - https://archive.org/details/alfredgreatconta00bowkiala
UR  - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76551
ER  -