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Asser (also known as John Asser or Asserius Menevensis) was a Welsh monk who lived from at least AD 885 until about 909. Almost nothing is known of Asser's early life. The name Asser is likely to have been taken from Aser, or Asher, the eighth son of Jacob in Genesis.
Asser (died c. 909) was a Welsh monk, chiefly remembered as the friend, teacher, counsellor, and biographer of Alfred the Great. Born in Wales, he became a monk at St. David’s Abbey, Pembrokeshire.
Asser’s Life of King Alfred follows Alfred’s career from his birth to his accession in 871, and describes in detail his reign and his wars, stopping abruptly in 887, 12 years before Alfred’s death.
In a new publication by T.M.C. Asser Press, Professor Michael Fakhri, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, provides an interesting analysis of the complex relationship between food systems and structural violence.
Apr 6, 2023 · Asser, Bishop of Sherborne, was a key figure in the court of King Alfred the Great, and his contributions to the cultural and intellectual life of early medieval England cannot be overstated.
Aug 1, 2007 · Asser's life of King Alfred by Asser, John, d. 909; Cook, Albert S. (Albert Stanburrough), 1853-1927
The story below illustrates the main themes that Asser comes back to time and again; Alfred’s love of learning, his regrets at the lack of education in his youth and determination to put that right.
Oct 6, 2020 · ASSER’S LIFE OF KING ALFRED. To my lord Alfred, king of the Anglo-Saxons, the worshipful and pious ruler of all Christians in the island of Britain, Asser, least of all the servants of God, wisheth thousandfold prosperity for both lives, according to the desires of his heart. 1.
Oct 16, 2021 · Few texts from early medieval Britain have garnered as much interest as the Life of King Alfred, the biography of the West Saxon king Alfred the Great (r. 871–899), written while its subject was still alive. 1 Its author was Asser, a Welsh clergyman whose learned reputation, as the Life tells us, had led the king to persuade him to join his roya...
Asser definition: Dutch jurist and statesman. See examples of ASSER used in a sentence.
