{"id":53272,"date":"2026-07-29T13:23:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T10:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/voxmediiaevi.com\/?page_id=53272"},"modified":"2026-08-01T21:28:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T18:28:15","slug":"2025-2-novruzov","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/voxmediiaevi.com\/en\/2025-2-novruzov\/","title":{"rendered":"2025-2-novruzov"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Novruzov P.N.<\/em>,<em>Volkonskaya M.A. <\/em>He was \u00fee wiseste man: Alfredian Renaissance and its Influence on the Image of the King in the Middle English Didactic Poem The Proverbs of Alfred. [Digital Resource] \/\/ Vox medii aevi. 2025. Vol. 2 (13). P. 41\u201365. URL: <a href=\"https:\/\/voxmediiaevi.com\/2025-2-novruzov\/\">https:\/\/voxmediiaevi.com\/2025-2-novruzov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DOI: 10.24412\/2587-6619-2025-13-41-65<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/voxmediiaevi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/vma_vol.2_2025-41-65.pdf\">&gt;Download the PDF<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"%25d0%25bf%25d1%2580%25d0%25be%25d1%2588%25d0%25b8%25d0%25bd-%25d0%25b0%25d0%25bb%25d0%25b5%25d0%25ba%25d1%2581%25d0%25b5%25d0%25b9-%25d0%25b2%25d0%25b0%25d1%2581%25d0%25b8%25d0%25bb%25d1%258c%25d0%25b5%25d0%25b2%25d0%25b8%25d1%2587\">Pavel Novruzov<\/h2>\n\n\n<p id=\"%25d0%25bf%25d1%2580%25d0%25be%25d1%2588%25d0%25b8%25d0%25bd-%25d0%25b0%25d0%25bb%25d0%25b5%25d0%25ba%25d1%2581%25d0%25b5%25d0%25b9-%25d0%25b2%25d0%25b0%25d1%2581%25d0%25b8%25d0%25bb%25d1%258c%25d0%25b5%25d0%25b2%25d0%25b8%25d1%2587\">Post-Graduate Student at the School of Philological Studies, Higher School of Economics (Moscow)<br>Novruzov.P.N@hse.ru<\/p>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"%25d0%25bf%25d1%2580%25d0%25be%25d1%2588%25d0%25b8%25d0%25bd-%25d0%25b0%25d0%25bb%25d0%25b5%25d0%25ba%25d1%2581%25d0%25b5%25d0%25b9-%25d0%25b2%25d0%25b0%25d1%2581%25d0%25b8%25d0%25bb%25d1%258c%25d0%25b5%25d0%25b2%25d0%25b8%25d1%2587\">Maria Volkonskaya<\/h2>\n\n\n<p id=\"%25d0%25bf%25d1%2580%25d0%25be%25d1%2588%25d0%25b8%25d0%25bd-%25d0%25b0%25d0%25bb%25d0%25b5%25d0%25ba%25d1%2581%25d0%25b5%25d0%25b9-%25d0%25b2%25d0%25b0%25d1%2581%25d0%25b8%25d0%25bb%25d1%258c%25d0%25b5%25d0%25b2%25d0%25b8%25d1%2587\">Candidate of Sciences (Philology), Associate Professor at the School of Philological Studies, Higher School of Economics (Moscow)<br>ORCID: 0000-0002-1812-1287<br>mary.volkonskaya@gmail.com<\/p>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"%25d0%25be%25d0%25b1%25d1%2580%25d0%25b0%25d0%25b7-%25d0%25b8%25d0%25b4%25d0%25b5%25d0%25b0%25d0%25bb%25d1%258c%25d0%25bd%25d0%25be%25d0%25b3%25d0%25be-%25d0%25ba%25d0%25bd%25d1%258f%25d0%25b7%25d1%258f%25d0%25b2%25d0%25be%25d0%25b8%25d0%25bd%25d0%25b0-%25d0%25b2-%25d0%25bd%25d0%25b5%25d0%25ba%25d1%2580%25d0%25be%25d0%25bb\">He was \u00fee wiseste man: Alfredian Renaissance and its Influence on the Image of the King in the Middle English Didactic Poem The Proverbs of Alfred<\/h2>\n\n\n<p id=\"%25d0%25be%25d0%25b1%25d1%2580%25d0%25b0%25d0%25b7-%25d0%25b8%25d0%25b4%25d0%25b5%25d0%25b0%25d0%25bb%25d1%258c%25d0%25bd%25d0%25be%25d0%25b3%25d0%25be-%25d0%25ba%25d0%25bd%25d1%258f%25d0%25b7%25d1%258f%25d0%25b2%25d0%25be%25d0%25b8%25d0%25bd%25d0%25b0-%25d0%25b2-%25d0%25bd%25d0%25b5%25d0%25ba%25d1%2580%25d0%25be%25d0%25bb\">This article situates the phenomenon of the Alfredian Renaissance, which took place at the end of the 9th century, within the broader Carolingian intellectual tradition and explores how the key ideas of the Carolingian revival, especially the notion of the ideal ruler and the concept of correctio, were adopted and reinterpreted during King Alfred\u2019s reign. Using Asser\u2019s Life of King Alfred and the king\u2019s preface to Gregory the Great\u2019s Pastoral Care, it examines the shaping of Alfred\u2019s image, in which a characteristically Anglo-Saxon shift can be observed: from the biblical model of the warrior-king (David) to that of the wise king and judge (Solomon). The article then traces the subsequent reception of this image in the post-Conquest tradition, focusing on the 12th-century didactic poem The Proverbs of Alfred, which represents the king as a sage, teacher, and preacher, turning the historical Alfred into a literary archetype of the wise ruler.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"%25d0%25be%25d0%25b1%25d1%2580%25d0%25b0%25d0%25b7-%25d0%25b8%25d0%25b4%25d0%25b5%25d0%25b0%25d0%25bb%25d1%258c%25d0%25bd%25d0%25be%25d0%25b3%25d0%25be-%25d0%25ba%25d0%25bd%25d1%258f%25d0%25b7%25d1%258f%25d0%25b2%25d0%25be%25d0%25b8%25d0%25bd%25d0%25b0-%25d0%25b2-%25d0%25bd%25d0%25b5%25d0%25ba%25d1%2580%25d0%25be%25d0%25bb\"><em>Keywords:<\/em> Carolingian Renaissance; Alfred the Great; Alfredian Renaissance; Proverbs of Alfred; sage; wisdom.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":{"0":"post-53272","1":"page","2":"type-page","3":"status-publish","5":"no-featured-image-padding"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voxmediiaevi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/53272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voxmediiaevi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voxmediiaevi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voxmediiaevi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voxmediiaevi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53272"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/voxmediiaevi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/53272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53355,"href":"https:\/\/voxmediiaevi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/53272\/revisions\/53355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voxmediiaevi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}