Cultural Difference and the Meaning of Latinity in Asser’s Life of King Alfred

Abstract

Asser’s biography of Alfred the Great of Wessex is often read as a principal site of ninth-century West Saxon hegemonic consolidation. Yet at the same time, this essay argues, its rhetorical pragmatics encode an implicit, and often overlooked, assertion of continued cultural diversity in Britain.

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