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The Literary Contributions Of King Alfred The Great
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Our understanding of the literary achievements of King Alfred
depend very much upon what we believe about his early education. If we are
content to accept the stories of Asser, the famous biographer of Alfred,
that he reached his twelfth birthday before he learned to read (Keynes 75),
then we must reckon his literary career as a phenomenon which ....
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....in the state of educational
opportunity in England. "Formerly," the King wrote bitterly, "men came
hither from foreign lands to seek for instruction, and now when we desire
it we can only obtain it from abroad" (Collins 329, Smyth 249-250). But
his efforts were far from being imprisoned within his own island. He sent
shipmasters to the seas and .... |
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