1) In the late 9th century, a large Danish army invaded England after being defeated in France. They crossed the English Channel with 250 ships. 2) King Alfred the Great ruled Wessex from 871-901 AD and led resistance against the Danish invaders. He defeated them in the crucial Battle of Edington in 878. 3) After the battle, Alfred negotiated the Peace of Chippenham, in which the Danes controlled northern and central England while Alfred ruled southern England from Wessex. This divided England between the warring parties.

1. DANISH INVADERS AND
THE AGE OF ALFRED
Bonaobra, Cyrene Anne L.
BSED-E III-1

2. The Danish Invasion of
892
 A large Danish army was defeated by
Arnulf, king of the East Franks.
 The beaten army made its way to
Boulogne, and the following year (892),
in a fleet of 250 ships, crossed the
Channel

3. King
Arnulf

6. ALFRED THE GREAT
KING FROM 871-901
A.D.

7. ALFRED THE GREAT

9. The fate of all England hung in the
balance, until at last they were
checked by the steadfast heroism of
King Alfred. (Battle of Edington)
It was after this battle that Alfred
made his famous treaty with the Danes,
the Peace of Chippenham, 878.
Under this, all through a great
tract of England was surrendered to the
invaders; Alfred retained all of
Southern and part of Middle England.

10. Old English poetry
Old English Poetry
 Two styles or fields of reference;
 Heroic Germanic
 Christian
 Old English poetry was an oral craft that was
preformed by a scop and accompanied by a harp.

11. Old English Poets
Alfred the Great
Caedmon
 Cædmon's Hymn is the oldest
recorded Old English poem, and also
one of the oldest surviving samples of
Germanic alliterative verse.

12. Caedmon

13. •Bede
•Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis
Anglorum (Ecclesiastical
History of the English People)
•It is believed to have been
completed in 731, when Bede
was approximately 59 years
old.

14. Bede

15. Cynewulf
The Fates of the
Apostles and Elene
One of the Anglo-Saxon poets
known by name, and one of four
whose work survives today.

16. Cynewulf

17. Alfred the Great
 Old English translations of
Gregory's Pastoral Care and
Boethius's Consolation of
Philosophy.
 Alfred is also thought to be the
author of 50 metrical psalms.

18. Gregory's Pastoral Care
• A handbook for the clergy, the
shepherds of the people, intended to
guide them in their duties

19. Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
 Begun under King Alfred late in the ninth
century and carried on by various writers
in a number of monasteries.
 “First Great Book in English Prose”.
 The record begins with 60 B.C. and closes
with 1154.
 Alfred and his helpers revised older minor
chronicles and records and wrote
firsthand accounts of their own times.

21. Consolations of Philosophy
 Written around 524 by Boethius
 Single most important and influential work
in the West on Medieval and
early Renaissance Christianity.
 Last great Western work of the Classical
Period.