{"id":6636,"date":"2021-11-15T13:57:42","date_gmt":"2021-11-15T12:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/?p=192255"},"modified":"2021-11-15T16:14:08","modified_gmt":"2021-11-15T15:14:08","slug":"the-man-who-made-king-alfred-great","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/rss_feed\/the-man-who-made-king-alfred-great\/","title":{"rendered":"The man who made King Alfred great"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"><\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Dr David Musgrove\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Monday, 15 November 2021 at 12:00 am<\/p><hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>As the author of the <i>Life<\/i> <i>of King Alfred<\/i>, the Welsh churchman Asser is in large part responsible for how the early medieval king was viewed, and the fact that he eventually got the moniker \u2018the Great\u2019. 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