HORSPOOL DAVID
(H/B) WHY ALFRED BURNED THE CAKES
A KING AND HIS ELEVEN-HUNDRED-YEAR AFTERLIFE
Εκδότης: PROFILE BOOKS Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 3621-0002 This book addresses a moment in history that probably never happened. But the story of Alfred the Great burning the cakes was recounted in dozens of different forms for over a thousand years. Alfred, king of Wessex -who had been fighting the Vikings all his short life, who had watched his father and brothers worn out by the struggle, seen his kinsmen die, his royal counterparts in the other Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of Mercia, East Anglia and Northumbria driven out or martyred and horribly butchered- was on the run. On or about Twelfth Night 87... Διαβάστε περισσότερα... |
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Ελληνικές / Ξένες Εκδόσεις
Ημερομηνία Έκδοσης
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