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The Alfred jewel: an historical essay (1901)

Earle, John, 1824-1903, Ashmolean Museum · Oxford, Clarendon Press · leaf 130

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ked, andwhen we have moreover analyzed its designand considered each several feature, we havenot as yet exhausted the matter of our theme.An important part of the problem remains tobe discussed, and that is the place of its dis-covery, the how and the why of its depositthere, and the possibility of… … w CO h ■< Alfred in Somerset 95 Epigraph, and to associate the Jewel with thechief and central episode in the career of ournational hero. The momentous crisis which isthus reflected in the Jewel seems to open a widerview, and to demand some enlargement of thisEssay, so as to embrace a glimpse of…

Alfred, King of England, 849-901 · Enamel and enameling

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