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Mar 2017
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235 – Alfred’s Educational Reforms

Jamie Jeffers
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One of the interesting things about piecing together the life of Alfred is that we find little windows into who he was in the strangest of places. Most kings of this era didn’t write much down for us to read… but Alfred did. In fact, he translated entire books (which we’re going to talk about […]

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