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King Alfred’s Version of St. Augustine’s Soliloquies

by King Alfred

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Late in the ninth century King Alfred turned St. Augustine’s Soliloquies, a dialogue between Augustine and Reason on knowing God and the soul, into Old English, adding much of his own, including a third book on immortality. Henry Lee Hargrove renders the whole into modern English, marking Alfred’s additions in italics.

A window into the mind of England’s scholar-king, for readers of medieval thought. Download the free EPUB.

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