1st Edition
King Alfred the Great, his Hagiographers and his Cult A Childhood Remembered
By Tomás Mario Kalmar
Copyright 2023
308 Pages
by
Routledge
308 Pages
by
Routledge
308 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Foreword by Andrew Prescott, Acknowledgments, Some Key Dates, I Cult and Canon: The Chronicle, 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.
Biography
An independent Latino scholar living in Vermont, Tomás Kalmar (Ed.D., Harvard) specializes in interdisciplinary Alfredian Studies. He has published on Alfred and Asser in EOLAS and Peritia. He is the author of Illegal Alphabets and Adult Biliteracy (Routledge 2015).
