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The Paper Brigade was the name given to a group of residents of the Vilna Ghetto who hid a large cache of Jewish cultural items from YIVO (the Yiddish Scientific Institute), saving them from destruction or theft by Nazi Germany. Established in 1942 and led by Abraham Sutzkever and Shmerke Kaczerginski, the group smuggled books, paintings and ...
Alfred the Great (Old English: Ælfrǣd [ˈæɫvˌræːd]; c. 849 – 26 October 899) was King of the West Saxons from 871 to 886, and King of the Anglo-Saxons from 886 until his death in 899. He was the youngest son of King Æthelwulf and his first wife Osburh, who both died when Alfred was young.
Dec 19, 2022 · 1 online resource (xvi, 387 pages) : Based upon two conferences held in 1999 the papers that comprise this collection present a full contextualization of King Alfred by setting him against contemporary rulers across the whole of Europe. Includes bibliographical references and index. Introduction.
Jul 24, 2020 · Item Size. 537.7M. 268 pages : 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Alfred's Dynasty and its Forebears -- 2. Alfred's Parents and Family -- 3. Alfred's Visits to Rome in 853 and 855, and his Boyhood to 866 -- 4. The Chief Places of Christian and Pagan Europe: trade, forts and the origins of towns before the 860s -- 5.
Aug 15, 2009 · The whole works of King Alfred the Great, with preliminary essays, illustrative of the history, arts, and manners, of the ninth century. Book digitized by Google from the library of the University of California and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.
Jul 30, 2017 · Alfred the Great was the monarch of England from 871 to 899. No other ruler in England's long and varied history has been honored with the title "the Great". Alfred once declared it his intention "To live worthily as long as I live and after my life to leave to them that should come after, my memory in good works."
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King Alfred the Great, his Hagiographers and his Cult: A Childhood Remembered [Sample chapter], 2023. In the 19th C Protestant historians expunged hagiography. But for Aelred of Rievaulx history was contained by hagiography.
