Note 372 — LECTURE III LIFE OF ALFRED PRIOR TO HIS ACCESSION TO THE THRONE
Reading edition
Gregorovius, iii. 87 ff. (a fine description); Ranke, Weltgesch. VI. ii. 1. Compare Alcuin’s fine lines on the state of Rome at the end of the eighth century:
Roma caput mundi, mundi decus, aurea Roma, Nunc remanet tantum saeua ruina tibi, De Clade Lindisfarnensis Monasterii, vv. 37, 38.