Alfred the Great

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  1. Richard Abels, Alfred the Great- War, Kingship and Culture in Anglo-Saxon England, London: Taylor & Francis, 1998.
  2. Daniel Anlezark, Alfred the Great, Bradford: Arc Medieval Press, 2017.
  3. Simon Keynes, “The Cult of King Alfred the Great.” Anglo-Saxon England 28 (1999): 225-356.
  4. Simon Keynes, “A tale of two kings: Alfred the Great and Æthelred the Unready.” Transactions of the Royal Historical Society (1986): 195-217.
  5. Keynes and Lapidge. Alfred the Great: Asser’s Life of King Alfred and Other Contemporary Source, London: Penguin Books Ltd, 2004.
  6. Ryan Lavelle, Alfred’s Wars- Sources and Interpretations of Anglo-Saxon Warfare in the Viking Age, Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer Ltd, 2012.
  7. David Pratt, The Political Thought of King Alfred the Great, Cambridge: Cambridge University press, 2004.
  8. M. J. Swanton, ‘King Alfred’s Ships: Text and Context’, Anglo-Saxon England, 28 (2008), 1-22.