Sources/historians that have an alternative opinion of Alfred the Great of Wessex

Hello,

I suppose a number of Alfred's contemporary texts like Asser's the Life of Alfred and Anglo-Saxon Chronicles tend to present him as a a very significant figure, so and that almost any recent scholarship on the 'critical' assessment of these primary sources inevitably involves with some re-assessment of his activity as a 'real' historical figure.

Even the shortest introductory book by Anlezark includes the chapter on the afterlife/the reputation of Alfred especially in Victorian England.

References:

Keynes, Simon & Michael Lapidge. Alfred the Great: Asser's Life of King Alfred and other contemporary sources. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1983; 2004: First and foremost, I strongly recommend you to check the introductory section of this collection of primary sources on the current scholarship on their evaluation as primary sources.

+++

Anlezark, Daniel. Alfred the Great. Kalamazoo, MI: Arc Humanities, 2017: is probably the shortest introduction on the topic, Alfred the Great. Its first chapter, 'Finding Alfred (pp. 1-32) and the last chapter, 'Thinking Alfred (pp. 73-99)', might be useful for you.
Discenza, Nicole G. & Paul E. Szarmach (eds.). A Companion to Alfred the Great. Leiden: Brill, 2015: Sorry, I don't know much about this companion.
Jorgensen, A. (ed.). Reading the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: Language, Literature, History. Turnhout: Brepols, 2010: is a recent collection of the essays concerning of such a 'critical' reading of one of the most famous primary texts from Anglo-Saxon England, though I afraid the majority of them don't primarily deal with the reign of Alfred the Great itself.
Reuter, Timothy (ed.). Alfred the Great: papers from the Eleventh-Centenary Conferences. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003: Especially a chapter by Barbara Yorke, titled as 'Alfredism: the use and abuse of King Alfred's reputation in later centuries (pp. 361-80.)'.