The Alfred Jewel and Kingship

Amy Faulkner explores how Alfred’s translations question what it
means to be a good king in this TORCH Bite-Size talk at the
Ashmolean Museum LiveFriday The Alfred Jewel is a testament to
Alfred’s educational reforms, supposedly one of the mysterious and
valuable aestels that would have accompanied the translations
Alfred distributed to his bishops. This talk shows how Alfred’s
translations question what it means to be a good king, and how the
use or misuse of wealth is at the heart of this question.