Description This comprehensive collection includes Asser\'s Life of Alfred , extracts from The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle , and Alfred\'s own writings, laws, and will.
He has translated the Latin writings of Aldhelm and is the author of numerous books on Latin literature..
Michael Lapidge is Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Cambridge University and a Fellow of Clare College.
He is the author of The Diplomas of King Aethelred \'the Unready\' and of numerous articles on Anglo-Saxon history.
Simon Keynes is Reader in Anglo-Saxon History at Cambridge University.
About the Author Little is known of Asser beyond this work.
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Description This comprehensive collection includes Asser\'s Life of Alfred , extracts from The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle , and Alfred\'s own writings, laws, and will
