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The Search for Alfred the Great
Title
The Search for Alfred the Great [electronic resource] / BBC Worldwide Ltd.
Publication
[Place of publication not identified] : BBC Worldwide Ltd., [2014]
Distribution
New York, N.Y. : distributed by Infobase, 2015.
Copyright Notice Date
©2014
Physical Description
1 streaming video file (1 video file (51 min., 51 sec.)) : sound, color.
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Streaming video file encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on May 15, 2015.
Closed-captioned.
Title from distributor's description (Infobase, September 3, 2015).
Access and use
Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
Inside the churchyard of St. Bartholomew's in Winchester there is a mysterious unmarked grave, a grave that has long been thought to contain the remains of King Alfred and his family. Now a team of archaeologists are exhuming these bones and, using the latest scientific techniques and DNA sampling, combined with an informed history of the site, seek to find out if this really is the last resting place of King Alfred the Great. Just who was this King? What did he look like? How did he live? And how did he die? This remarkable film uncovers the story of one of England's greatest kings through the investigation of his 1000 year old remains and so pieces together, in more detail than ever before, the story of the extraordinary world in which he lived.
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Films on demand.
Other formats
digital transfer of (manifestation): BBC Worldwide Ltd., 2014.
Format
Images / Online / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 20, 2019
System details note
System requirements: FOD playback platform.
Audience
9 & up.
Contents
Medieval English Monarch Mystery (3:13)
First Exhumation (2:37)
Alfred the Great's Early Years (3:57)
Pilgrimages to Rome (4:12)
Second Exhumation (2:41)
Retreat to Somerset Levels (2:09)
Battle of Edington (2:51)
Protestant Vandalism (3:46)
Resting Place Disturbance (1:53)
Anglo-Saxon Literacy Project (2:07)
Alfred Jewel (2:08)
Radiocarbon Dating (1:45)
Desecration of Alfred's Remains (2:52)
Anglo-Saxon Hero (3:18)
Radiocarbon Results (3:27)
New Archaeological Evidence (3:58)
Alfred the Great Summary (3:31)
Credits: The Search for Alfred the Great (0:48)
Videorecording number
86546 Infobase
Genre/Form
Educational films.
Internet videos.
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