PREFACE

CONTENTS

LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS

KEY TO THE NAMES ON THE MAP

INTRODUCTORY

LECTURE I THE SOURCES

LECTURE II THE SOURCES ( continued )

LECTURE III LIFE OF ALFRED PRIOR TO HIS ACCESSION TO THE THRONE

LECTURE IV ALFRED'S CAMPAIGNS AGAINST THE DANES; CIVIL ADMINISTRATION

LECTURE V CIVIL ADMINISTRATION ( continued ) EDUCATION; LITERARY WORKS

LECTURE VI LITERARY WORKS ( continued ); SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION

APPENDIX

ADDENDA

FOOTNOTES

INDEX

THE LIFE AND TIMES
OF
ALFRED THE GREAT

C. PLUMMER

HENRY FROWDE, M.A.
PUBLISHER TO THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
LONDON, EDINBURGH
NEW YORK

THE LIFE AND TIMES
OF
ALFRED THE GREAT

BEING THE FORD LECTURES FOR 1901

BY
CHARLES PLUMMER, M.A.
FELLOW AND CHAPLAIN OF CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE, OXFORD

WITH AN APPENDIX

OXFORD
AT THE CLARENDON PRESS
1902

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TO THE
Rev. JOHN EARLE, M.A.
RAWLINSONIAN PROFESSOR OF ANGLO-SAXON
IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
THESE LECTURES
ARE AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED
BY HIS
FRIEND AND FORMER PUPIL
THE AUTHOR