Paper -a:
Boethius's Consolatio Philolosaphae was translated into Old English in the 10th-century and the translation was once attributed to King Alfred the Great. The Old English version place substantial emphasis on the role of secular power in transfer and transmission of learning. The paper argues the imperial themes of Alfred's Boethius are informed by the Augustian notion of Civitas Dei on the one hand and the medieval concepts of translation imperii et studii on the other. The Old English author sets the Roman Empire as the historical precedent for England; Anglo-Saxon England is another location, which is to emulate the transfer of power and the transfer of the centre of learning that took place in Rome.
Paper -b:
It is not unusual from the beginning of the early Middle Ages that monks wrote historical works, but they intended to describe the secular historiography in Annals only from the 8th century onward. In comparison with early studies from historiographical perspectives, some historians recently have indicated Annals' relation with the memory of past, especially when the annals were bonded together in the manuscripts with other works of similar functions. Nevertheless we may further inquire why these monastic annals as a genre did appear in the turn of the 9th centuries with the background of rising Carolingian empire.
Paper -c:
The majority of Old English literature is written in a standardized literary dialect called late West Saxon, promoted by Æthelwold, bishop of Winchester, practised by the likes of Ælfric, and prevalent as far away as Northumbria. Yet in the late 8th and 9th centuries, Mercian-infludenced spelling practices and vocabulary can be found in localizable charters outside Mercia in Kent and East Anglia, in early West Saxon prose and poetry. This paper builds on the work of Jennifer Morrish and Michelle Brown on the Mercian schriftprovinz and explores the interplay between political hegemony and literacy in Anglo-Saxon England.
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