Alfred Was Great But Was Never King of England

King Alfred the Great, the only one in England's history to be given the epithet beside Cnut, though in this video, the first in a series of videos on how the "English State" was forged from the late 9th and throughout the 10th Century, I will lay out how "England" as a political entity nor a concept could have existed during Alfred's time.

Sources:
Ecclesiastical History of the English People - St. Bede
(Penguin Classics)
Life of King Alfred - Bishop Asser
(Penguin Classics "Alfred the Great: Asser's Life of King Alfred and Other Contemporary Sources")
Treaty of Alfred and Guthrum - Anon.
(Penguin Classics "Alfred the Great: Asser's Life of King Alfred and Other Contemporary Sources")
The Formation of the English State in the 10th Century - George Molyneux

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Music Used:
Ritual - Kevin MacLeod
Eine Kleine Nachtsmuzik - Wulfgang Amadeus Mozart
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"Sunday Dub” - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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