LITERATURE QUESTIONS
MEDIEVAL LITERATURE AND CULTURE
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The breakdown of England’s once solidified political identity
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The success of the Battle of Maldon
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The translation of Latin texts into the vernacular language
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The suppression of the Norman Invasion
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Detailed explanation-1: -Alfred, also spelled Aelfred, byname Alfred the Great, (born 849-died 899), king of Wessex (871–899), a Saxon kingdom in southwestern England. He prevented England from falling to the Danes and promoted learning and literacy.
Detailed explanation-2: -Alfred is likely the author of a code of law and the translator of four books: Augustine, Soliloquies; Boethius, Consolation of Philosophy (see Chaucer and Elizabeth I); Gregory the Great, Pastoral Care; and the Psalms.
Detailed explanation-3: -Alfred wanted Englishmen to be able to read what they needed to read in their own language. And he did not stop with translations from Latin.
Detailed explanation-4: -The five important translations either done by himself or under his guidance are Pastoral Care of Pope Gregory, the History of the World of Orosius, Bede’s Ecclesiastical History, Boethius’s Consolation of Philosophy and The Soliloquies of St. Augustine.