CONTENTS

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1.Alfred’s Birth and Genealogy[1]
2.Genealogy of Alfred’s Mother[2]
3.The Danes at Wicganbeorg and Sheppey[3]
4.The Danes sack Canterbury[3]
5.Battle of Aclea[4]
6.Defeat of the Danes at Sandwich[4]
7.Æthelwulf assists Burgred[4]
8.Alfred at Rome[5]
9.Other Events of 853[5]
10.The Heathen winter in Sheppey[6]
11.Æthelwulf journeys to Rome[6]
12.Rebellion of Æthelbald[6]
13.Judith’s Position in Wessex[7]
14.Offa and Eadburh[8]
15.Eadburh’s Further Life[9]
16.Æthelwulf’s Will[10]
17.Æthelbald marries Judith[11]
18.Æthelbert’s Reign[12]
19.Æthelbert’s Death[12]
20.The Danes in Kent[12]
21.Æthelred’s Accession[13]
22.Alfred’s Rearing[13]
23.Alfred and the Book of Saxon Poems[14]
24.Alfred’s Handbook[14]
25.Alfred’s Love of Learning[15]
26.The Danes occupy York[16]
27.Defeat of the Northumbrians[16]
28.Death of Ealhstan[17]
29.Alfred marries[17]
30.The Danes at Nottingham[17]
31.The Danes at York[18]
32.The Danes at Thetford[18]
33.The Danes triumph[18]
34.Ceolnoth dies[18]
35.The Danes defeated at Englefield[19]
36.Battle of Reading[19]
37.Battle of Ashdown[20]
38.Alfred begins the Attack[20]
39.The Heathen Rout and Loss[21]
40.Battle of Basing[22]
41.Æthelred’s Death[22]
42.Alfred comes to the Throne; Battle of Wilton[22]
43.Peace made[24]
44.The Heathen winter in London[24]
45.The Heathen winter in Lindsey[24]
46.The Danes in Mercia[24]
47.The Danes in Northumbria and Cambridge[25]
48.Alfred’s Battle at Sea[25]
49.Movements of the Danes[25]
50.Halfdene partitions Northumbria[26]
51.Division of Mercia[26]
52.The Danes at Chippenham[26]
53.Alfred in Somersetshire[27]
54.The Danes defeated at Cynwit[27]
55.Alfred at Athelney[28]
56.Battle of Edington, and Treaty with Guthrum[28]
57.The Danes go to Cirencester[30]
58.Danes at Fulham[31]
59.An Eclipse[31]
60.The Danes in East Anglia[31]
61.The Smaller Army leaves England[31]
62.The Danes fight with the Franks[31]
63.The Danes on the Meuse[31]
64.Alfred’s Naval Battle with the Danes[31]
65.The Danes at Condé[32]
66.Deliverance of Rochester[32]
67.Alfred’s Naval Battle at the Mouth of the Stour[32]
68.Death of Carloman, of Louis II, and of Louis III[33]
69.The Danes in Old Saxony[33]
70.Charles, King of the Alemanni[34]
71.Death of Pope Marinus[34]
72.The Danes break their Treaty[34]
73.Asser makes a New Beginning[34]
74.Alfred’s Maladies[35]
75.Alfred’s Children and their Education[37]
76.Alfred’s Varied Pursuits[38]
77.Alfred’s Scholarly Associates: Werfrith, Plegmund, Æthelstan, and Werwulf[41]
78.Grimbald and John, the Old Saxon[42]
79.Asser’s Negotiations with King Alfred[42]
80.The Welsh Princes who submit to Alfred[44]
81.How Alfred rewards Submission[45]
82.The Siege of Paris[46]
83.Alfred rebuilds London[47]
84.The Danes leave Paris[47]
85.Division of the Empire[47]
86.Alfred sends Alms to Rome[48]
87.Alfred begins to translate from Latin[48]
88.Alfred’s Manual[48]
89.Alfred’s Handbook[50]
90.Illustration from the Penitent Thief[51]
91.Alfred’s Troubles[51]
92.Alfred builds Two Monasteries[54]
93.Monasticism was decayed[55]
94.Monks brought from beyond Sea[55]
95.A Crime committed at Athelney[55]
96.The Plot of a Priest and a Deacon[56]
97.The Execution of the Plot[57]
98.The Convent at Shaftesbury[58]
99.Alfred divides his Time and his Revenues[58]
100.The Threefold Division of Officers at Court[59]
101.The Distribution for Secular Purposes[59]
102.The Distribution for Religious Purposes[60]
103.Alfred’s Dedication of Personal Service[61]
104.Alfred’s Measure of Time[61]
105.Alfred judges the Poor with Equity[63]
106.His Correction of Unjust and Incompetent Judges[63]
APPENDIXES[67]
Appendix I: Alfred’s Preface to his Translation of Gregory’s Pastoral Care[69]
Appendix II: Letter from Fulco, Archbishop of Rheims, to Alfred[72]
INDEX[79]