Asser alfred5/24/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() His genealogy is traced in the following order. ![]() Finally, in the last third of the book, Asser describes his maturing king and how he sought to learn the way of the Church through learning to write and read quotations of saints and scripture, and to carefully budget his wealth into bettering his kingdom and making sure half of his money went into Godly pursuits (giving to the poor, building monasteries and an abbey, etc. In the year of our Lord's incarnation 849, was born Alfred, king of the Anglo-Saxons, at the royal village of Wanating, in Berkshire, which country has its name from the wood of Berroc, where the box-tree grows most abundantly. So, a good portion of the writing is a chronicle of the various wars, describing neighboring kingdoms, who the invaders were, and each outcome, for about twenty years. From my understanding of the text, the environment surrounding this kingdom was wild and changeable, and Alfred became a king little by little as he led people settled in the area in many different attacks by the "pagans" or foreign invaders who are described as coming in waves every year or so. The writer begins with a stunning genealogy, taken from scripture and continuing with the history with which he would have been familiar, and finishing with King Alfred. Asser hoped to show that Alfred was a God-appointed ruler who cared for his people, in spite of his own infirmities. Assers Life of King Alfred, written in 893, is a revealing account of one of the greatest of medieval kings. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |