King Alfred the Great - Smyth, Alfred P. (Professor of Medieval History, and Master of Keynes College, Professor of Medieval History, and Master of Keynes College, University of Kent)

Soldier, statesman and scholar, Alfred the Great is celebrated as one of Britain's most successful and heroic kings. This biography reveals the controversial fact that Asser's "Life of Alfred", hitherto an important source of knowledge about Alfred, may have been a late medieval forgery.