Alfred the Great: Asser's Life of King Alfred and Other Contemporary Sources

If you like book Alfred the Great: Asser's Life of King Alfred and Other Contemporary Sources here is the list of books you may also like

Buy this book on Amazon

Similar books (20)

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

The Green Knight, a mysteriously powerful creature, tests the honor and courage of King Arthur's youngest knight.
Buy this book on Amazon
The Histories

David Grene, one of the best known translators of the Greek classics, splendidly captures the peculiar quality of Herodotus, the father of history.

Here is the historian, investigating and judging what…
Buy this book on Amazon
The Consolation of Philosophy

Boethius was an eminent public figure under the Gothic emperor Theodoric, and an exceptional Greek scholar. When he became involved in a conspiracy and was imprisoned in Pavia, it was to the Greek phi…
Buy this book on Amazon
The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century

Imagine you could get into a time machine and travel back to the 14th century. This text sets out to explain what life was like in the most immediate way, through taking the reader to the Middle Ages,…
Buy this book on Amazon
The Marvelous Land of Oz (Oz, #2)

Few fantasy lands have captured our hearts and imaginations as has the marvelous land of Oz. For over four generations, children and adults alike have reveled in the magical adventures of its beloved …
Buy this book on Amazon
Two Lives of Charlemagne

Buy this book on Amazon
Ecclesiastical History of the English People

Written in AD 731, Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People is the first account of Anglo-Saxon England ever written, and remains our single most valuable source for this period. It begins …
Buy this book on Amazon
The Alexiad

Buy this book on Amazon
The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English

The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in the Judean desert between 1947 and 1956 was one of the greatest archaeological finds of all time. Hidden in the caves at Qumran by the Essenes, a Jewish sect i…
Buy this book on Amazon
The Journey Through Wales / The Description of Wales

Buy this book on Amazon
The Aeneid

The founding epic of Rome, rendered in a fluid, metrical translation that sings Virgil’s stately verse in a vivid, contemporary idiom.

Like Emily Wilson’s celebrated translations of Homer, this new Aen…
Buy this book on Amazon
The First Kingdom: Britain in the Age of Arthur

Buy this book on Amazon
The Twelve Caesars

As private secretary to the Emperor Hadrian, Suetonius gained access to the imperial archives and used them (along with eye-witness accounts) to produce one of the most colorful biographical works in …
Buy this book on Amazon
The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone

English versions of Sophocles’ three great tragedies based on the myth of Oedipus, translated for a modern audience by two gifted poets.
Buy this book on Amazon
Beowulf

Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel an…
Buy this book on Amazon
The House on the Strand

The classic time travel novel from the legendary writer behind Rebecca and "The Birds." "The House on the Strand is prime du Maurier." --New York Times Dick Young is lent a house in Cornwall by his f…
Buy this book on Amazon
1066: The Year of the Conquest

Buy this book on Amazon
Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician

“All ages of the world have not produced a greater statesman and philosopher combined.”
—John Adams

He squared off against Caesar and was friends with young Brutus. He advised the legendary Pompey on hi…
Buy this book on Amazon
The History of the Kings of Britain

Completed in 1136, The History of the Kings of Britain traces the story of the realm from its supposed foundation by Brutus to the coming of the Saxons some two thousand years later. Vividly portrayin…
Buy this book on Amazon
The Life of Elizabeth I

Buy this book on Amazon