Week 5 Flashcards
1
Q
Alfred: unlikely king
A
- was youngest of 5 brothers
- was groomed for a career in the church
- very sickly person (obsessed with dirty thoughts as child –> hemorrhoids)
2
Q
Alfred defeats vikings
A
878
- by reorganising the military to always have a standing army
- established a navy
- Burhs for Guerilla warfare
3
Q
Treaty of Wedmore
A
878
Viking king was baptised
Alfred becomes king of Anglo-Saxons (no more small kingdoms)
4
Q
Alfred: Revival of learning
A
- recruits scholars from outside England
- Established court school
- translated books ‘most useful for men to know’
5
Q
The Alfred Jewel
A
Picture of a head of a boar
was a pointer stick
links wealth and wisdom
6
Q
After Alfred
A
his children reign
- continued reform
- Benedictine reform
7
Q
Benedictine reform
A
- reform of Anglo-Saxon learning in the vernacular
- revival of Benedictine monastic values
- replace bishops with monastic bishops
8
Q
4 positive Viking legacies
A
- Economic (York was a trading hub)
- Cultural (art forms)
- Linguistic (loan words)
- Political (no more little kingdoms)
