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M o r e recently, there have been two n o n - e x c l u s i v e tendencies in our understanding of the medieval period and what follows. S o m e scholars e m p h a s i z e the continuities b e t w e e n the M i d d l e Ages and the later time n o w o f t e n called the Early M o d e r n Period. O t h e r s e m p h a s i z e the ways in w h i c h sixteenth-century writers in s o m e s e n s e "created" the Middle A g e s , in order to highlight what they saw as the brilliance of their own time. M e d i e v a l a u t h o r s , of c o u r s e , did not think of t h e m s e l v e s as living in the "middle"; they s o m e t i m e s e x p r e s s e d the idea that the world was g r o w i n g old and that theirs w a s a d e c l i n i n g age, close to the e n d of time.

He himself translated various works from Latin, the most important of which was Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy, a sixth-century R o m a n work also translated in the fourteenth century by C h a u c e r . Alfred probably also instigated a translation of Bede's History and the beginning of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: this year-by-year record in Old English of important events in England was maintained at one monastery until the middle of the twelfth century. Practically all of Old English poetry is preserved in copies made in the West Saxon dialect after the reign of Alfred.

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