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Hardcover King Alfred the Great, His Hagiographers and His Cult: A Childhood Remembered Book

ISBN: 9463729615

ISBN13: 9789463729611

King Alfred the Great, His Hagiographers and His Cult: A Childhood Remembered

This book situates Alfred the Great in his hagiographic context. For 150 years, the fables told in the ninth century about Alfred's childhood have posed interlocking disciplinary challenges to historians committed to evicting romance from history. Blending current Hagiography Studies with historical, literary, and biblical hermeneutics can help us forgo the anti-hagiographic commitments which motivated the scholars who purified the Victorian cult...

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