The History of Alfred of Beverley

The History of Alfred of Beverley – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9781783274888,1783274883

Product details:

• ISBN 10:  1783274883
• ISBN 13: 9781783274888
• Author: John Slevin 

The first modern edition of a text which shows the suspicion with which Geoffrey of Monmouth’s History of the Kings of Britain was received two decades after it first appeared.

The history of the Yorkshire secular clerk, Alfred of Beverley (c.1148 x c.1151), an important primary source in Anglo-Norman historiography, supplies a history of Britain from its supposed foundation by Brutus down to the death of Henry I in 1135.
Alfred’s history is of particular interest in that it is the first Insular Latin chronicle to incorporate the legendary British history of Geoffrey of Monmouth (published c.mid 1130s) within a continuous account of the island’s past. In attempting to fuse the radically new Galfridian account of the past with that of the conventional twelfth-century (Bedan) view, Alfred’s use and manipulation of his sources is highly revealing and suggests a quite critical reception of Geoffrey’s history, a mindset which by the end of the twelfth century appears almost entirely to have disappeared amongst chroniclers.

Alfred’s history is also an important, and presently undervalued, witness to the reception and dissemination of three of the most important Anglo-Norman histories: Symeon of Durham Historia Regum, The Chronicle of John of Worcester and Henry of Huntingdon, Historia Anglorum, from which works it borrows extensively. In the manner of use of these sources, the author tells us much about the ecclesiastical and intellectual interests and outlook of the period.

Table contents:

1. INTRODUCTION
2. Alfred of Beverley – Man, Milieu & Memory
3. Date and Circumstances of the History
4. Sources
   i. Introduction
   ii. Henry of Huntingdon
   iii. Geoffrey of Monmouth
   iv. John of Worcester
   v. The Durham Historia Regum
5. The Afterlife of Alfred
6. Historical place, purpose and value
7. Manuscripts

People also search:

history of alfred pennyworth

biography alfred hitchcock

history of alfred street baptist church

history of beverley

history of beverley east yorkshire