King Alfred's Books
By: by the Right Reverend Bishop G.F. Browne ...
Contributors: Browne, G. F. 1833-1930.; Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo.; Gregory I, Pope, ca. 540-604.; Orosius, Paulus.; Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735.; Boethius, d. 524.; Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (Great Britain)
Publisher: London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge; New York: The Macmillan Co.
Published: 1920
Language: ang
Number of pages: 390
Subjects: Alfred, King of England, 849-899.; Latin literature -- Translations into English; English literature -- Old English, ca. 450-1100 -- History and criticism.
Notes: Description of Alfred's translations, with selected passages in modern English.
Table of contents: title: The blooms of the soliloquies of St. Augustine; title: The dialogues of Gregory the Great; title: The seven books of Orosius against the pagans; title: The pastoral care of Gregory the Great; title: Bede's Ecclesiastical history of the English race; title: Boethius on the Consolation of philosophy