![]() ![]() ![]() Most scholarly reviewers were not persuaded, and some were harsh in their rejection of his thesis. Smyth's challenge to the authenticity of this work occupied about two hundred and fifty pages of that work and colored Smyth's arguments throughout the rest of the book. Smyth's biography of the great Anglo-Saxon ruler was informed throughout by a grand thesis, that the Life of King Alfred attributed to Asser was actually a late tenth-century forgery by the Ramsey monk and scholar Byrhtferth. The reason for the change of title is obvious to anyone who has read or knows of Smyth's provocative and controversial King Alfred the Great (1995). Smyth has produced a translation of and commentary upon what he terms The Medieval Life of King Alfred the Great, a work known to most scholars as Asser's Life of King Alfred. The Medieval Life of King Alfred the Great: A Translation and Commentary on the Text Attributed to Asser. ![]()
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