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King Alfred the Great, his Hagiographers and his Cult : A Childhood Remembered / Tomás Mario Kalmar.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Hagiography Beyond Tradition ; 3Publisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2023]Copyright date: ©2023Description: 1 online resource (308 p.)Content type:
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  • 9789048544998
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 942.01/64092 23//eng/20230511eng
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- I Cult and Canon: The Chronicle -- Some Key Dates: 1849–1904 -- 1 Kiss the Reliquary -- 2 Remember the Pope -- 3 Fix the Date -- II Too Good to be True: The Life -- 4 Write the Life -- 5 Win the Book -- III The Curve of Destiny: The Works -- 6 Cross the Border -- 7 Win the Crown -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: 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 of Alfred by expunging his legends and salvaging his historicity. The book focusses on the typological functions of three Alfredian fables from the Old English Chronicle, the Old English Boethius, and Asser’s Vita Ælfredi, analyses the plot common to all three, critiques the psychological conjecture that Alfred’s childhood memory was their common source, and shows that synoptically they can help us see how Alfred shaped the curve of his own life’s destiny and how he engaged in the formation of his own cult to last a thousand years.
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Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- I Cult and Canon: The Chronicle -- Some Key Dates: 1849–1904 -- 1 Kiss the Reliquary -- 2 Remember the Pope -- 3 Fix the Date -- II Too Good to be True: The Life -- 4 Write the Life -- 5 Win the Book -- III The Curve of Destiny: The Works -- 6 Cross the Border -- 7 Win the Crown -- Bibliography -- Index

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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 of Alfred by expunging his legends and salvaging his historicity. The book focusses on the typological functions of three Alfredian fables from the Old English Chronicle, the Old English Boethius, and Asser’s Vita Ælfredi, analyses the plot common to all three, critiques the psychological conjecture that Alfred’s childhood memory was their common source, and shows that synoptically they can help us see how Alfred shaped the curve of his own life’s destiny and how he engaged in the formation of his own cult to last a thousand years.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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