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Identifier: medivalmodernh00myer (find matches)
Title: Mediæval and modern history
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Myers, P. V. N. (Philip Van Ness), 1846-1937
Subjects: Middle Ages History, Modern World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: Boston, New York (etc.) Ginn and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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e basis of early English jurisprudence. Alfred also fosteredlearning by becoming himself a translator. With the exceptionof the Bible, some short poems, and the well-known Paraphraseof the Scriptures (sect. 21), the translations by Alfred were thefirst books written in their own tongue that the English hadplaced in their hands. Here we have the beginnings of the proseliterature of England. The mighty roll of the prose books thatfill her libraries, writes Green, begins with the translations ofAlfred, and above all with the Chronicle of his reign. ^ For a full century following the death of Alfred his successorswere engaged in a constant struggle to hold in restraint the Danes 1 The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle here alluded to was a minute and chronological recordof events, probably begun in syslcmafic form in Alfreds reign and continued down tothe year ii=;4- It was kept by the monks of different monasteries, and forms one ofour most valuable sources for early English history. THE DAIN^ELAAV.
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§85) THE NORTHMEN IN GAUL 73 already settled in the land, or to protect their domains from theplundering inroads of fresh bands of pirates from the northernpeninsulas. In the end the Danes got the victory, and Canute,king of Denmark, became king of England (1016). For eighteenyears he reigned in a wise and parentalway. Altogether the Danes ruled in Englandabout a quarter of a century, and thenthe old English line was restored in theperson of Edward the Confessor (1042). 85. Settlement of the Northmen inGaul. The Northmen began to makepiratical descents upon the coasts ofGaul before the end of the reign ofCharlemagne. The great king had beendead only thirty years when these searovers ascended the Seine and sackedParis. At last the Carolingian king,Charles the Simple, did something verylike what Alfred the Great had doneacross the Channel only a short timebefore. He granted to Rollo, the leaderof the Northmen who had settled atRouen, a considerable section of coun-try in the north of G

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