Identifier: mediaevalmodernh00myer (find matches)
Title: Mediaeval and modern history
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Myers, P. V. N. (Philip Van Ness), 1846-1937
Subjects: Middle Ages History, Modern World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: Boston : Ginn & Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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nt laws of the Anglo-Saxons, tempering and altering them in accordance with Christian morals and prin-ciples. The code that he thus made formed the basis of early English jurisprudence.Alfred also fostered learning by himself becoming a translator. With the exceptionof the Bible, somer short poems, and the well-known Paraphrase of the Scriptures(see sec. 22), the translations by Alfred were the first books written in their owntongue that the English had placed in their hands. Here we have the beginnings ofthe prose literature of England. The mighty roll of the prose books that fill herlibraries, writes Green, begins with the translations of Alfred, and above all withthe Chronicle of his reign. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle here alluded to was a minuteand chronological record of events, probably begun in systematic form in Alfredsreign and continued down to the year 1154. It was kept by the monks of differentmonasteries, and forms one of our most valuable sources for early English history.
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SETTLEMENT OF THE NORTHMEN IN GAUL 75 For a full century following the death of Alfred his successorswere engaged in a constant struggle to hold in restraint the Danesalready settled in the land, or to protect their domains from theplundering inroads of fresh bands of pirates from the Northernpeninsulas. In the end the Danes got the victory, and Canute,king of Denmark, became king of England (1016). For eighteenyears he reigned in a wise and parental way. Altogether the Danes ruled in England about a quarter of acentury, and then the old English line was restored in the personof Edward the Confessor (1042). 86. Settlement of the Northmen in GauL — The Northmenbegan to make piratical descents upon the coasts of Gaul beforethe end of the reign of Charlemagne. The great king had beendead only thirty years when these sea rovers ascended the Seineand sacked Paris (845). We need not stop to give in detail the story of their subsequentplundering expeditions in Gaul and of their final settl

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