The Alfred Jewel: An Historical Essay

The place of its deposit 1 Structural details of the Jewel 2 The name of Alfred upon it 4 Question what this name imports _id._ Other persons bearing this name 5 The perfection...

The forms of the lettering 10 The Syntax of the Sentence: 12 (1) as to collocation 13 (2) usage of words _id._ (3) flexional construction 15 (4) active and passive structure 16...

The Epoch of the Discovery—The Royal Society 22 The persons who first were conversant with the new-found object—Colonel Nathaniel Palmer 23 Dr. Hans Sloane—The British Museum 24...

Bishop Clifford 31 The handle of a choirmaster’s wand 32 Identical with the ‘æstel’? 34 Given by Alfred to Athelney Abbey and there kept to Henry VIII’s time 35 This theory inap...

Form convenient for erection in the helmet 44 Transforms the helmet into a Coronet 45 The minor jewel from Minster Lovel 46 Dr. Wilson and Dr. Griffiths 48 Quotations from Beowu...

Diversity of opinion about the animal’s head 51 Testimony undesigned 52 The wild boar in the helmet _id._ Quotations from the _Beowulf_ 53 ff. The Boar’s Head at Queen’s College...

Our Chief Problem is ‘A figure hard to characterize’ 61 Division of this Chapter 62 Enamelling as an artistic industry _id._ Enamel _cloisonnée_ 63 Chief extant specimens accord...

The central episode of Alfred’s career 92 Suddenness of the surprize at Chippenham 94 Apprehension of attack on north coast of Wealcyn 95 Alhstan, bishop of Sherborne 96 Meditat...

‘Newton Park’ 133 Ælfric, archbishop of Canterbury 134 The Forest of North Petherton _id._ Three co-heiresses 135 The Perambulation of the Forests _id._ Gefferey Chaucer 136 The...

The Enamelled Ouche of Mr. Roach Smith 146 The Ring of Alhstan 147 The place of its discovery 148 The Ring of Alfred’s father 149 The place and manner of its discovery 150 The R...

Fine workmanship no longer an objection 157 Early cumulation of evidence 158 Evidence added since _id._ Rejected theories 159 The Cynehelm theory _id._ The unity of the work mak...

The subject of this Essay is preserved in the Ashmolean Museum, which has been its home for a period of time now approaching two hundred years. It is there installed under glass...

We must now consider and see what we can learn from the Epigraph. This was the cue whereby Hickes introduced the Jewel into the argument of his _Dissertatio Epistolaris_, and th...

The finding of the Alfred Jewel chanced upon a remarkable time in the intellectual life of the English nation. It was the time of Dryden, Defoe, Swift, Christopher Wren, Bentley...

The theories about the Alfred Jewel which have been noticed hitherto, belong to the crude attempts at interpretation which were evoked by the surprize of the strange discovery i...

The Alfred Jewel is so made as to require a small stem or ‘stert’ for its fixture when in use. It tapers off to a socket, which is adapted to receive a small stem, and it is onl...

There is a feature in the Alfred Jewel which appears to support the theory propounded in the last chapter. I mean the Boar’s Head, which is so wrought into the composition of th...

But the vital problem of the Alfred Jewel is in the enamelled Figure. Of its meaning there have been guesses and suggestions, some reasonable, some wild; M. Labarte could only s...

When we have described the form and symbolism of the Alfred Jewel, and reviewed the various interpretations which it has evoked, and when we have moreover analyzed its design an...

From the date of its discovery in 1693 down to the present time, the name of ‘Newton Park’ has been associated with the Alfred Jewel as designating the property on which it was...

The earliest recorded doubt as to the identity of the ÆLFRED of the Jewel with Alfred of Wessex was grounded upon the high artistic quality of the work[53]. It may therefore be...

Among the various criticisms which have been elicited by the Alfred Jewel during the two hundred and seven years which have elapsed since its discovery in the year 1693, the opi...