The king's family: securing the kingdom in Asser's Vita Alfredi.

From: Philological Quarterly | Date: September 22, 2001| Author: Sheppard, Alice | Copyright information

Recent work on Asser's Vita Alfredi has pursued two separate but complementary directions. While one set of scholars has returned to the question of authenticity, asking whether the work is a genuine ninth-century text or a forgery, the other has focused on the problem of audience. (1) Because it is written in Latin, the Vita Alfredi stands out from other Alfredian texts like the Old English Bede and Old English Orosius, histories that, together with the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, sugg...

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