Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Maps
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Fifth Century
- Sixth Century
- Seventh Century
- Eighth Century
- Ninth Century
- Tenth Century
- Eleventh Century
- I.41 Three Accounts of King Alfred and the Cakes
- I.42 In Praise of Queen Emma
- Select Bibliography for Volume I
- General Index
- Index of Passages Cited
I.41 - Three Accounts of King Alfred and the Cakes
from Eleventh Century
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 January 2024
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Maps
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Fifth Century
- Sixth Century
- Seventh Century
- Eighth Century
- Ninth Century
- Tenth Century
- Eleventh Century
- I.41 Three Accounts of King Alfred and the Cakes
- I.42 In Praise of Queen Emma
- Select Bibliography for Volume I
- General Index
- Index of Passages Cited
Summary
The famous story of king Alfred burning the cakes in the humble kitchen of the country wife is first recorded in Latin in the first Life of St. Neot, written in the eleventh century, before the Norman Conquest. It is interesting in containing not only a Biblical reference, but also a reference to Juvenal’s seventh satire.Here the original version of this literary vignette is compared with a briefer post-Conquest version in the Annals of St. Neot’s and an expanded version from the thirteenth century, from the Chronicle of John of Wallingford, which preserves the reference to Juvenaland the Biblical reference used in the original but adds other references.
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- The Cambridge Anthology of British Medieval Latin , pp. 444 - 449Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024