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An imaginative reassessment of Æthelred ";the Unready, "; one of medieval England's most maligned kings and a major Anglo-Saxon figure The Anglo-Saxon king Æthelred ";the Unready"; (978-1016) has long been considered to be inscrutable, irrational, and poorly advised. Infamou...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Roach, Levi, 1985- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2016]
Colección:Online Access with DDA: GOBI Pick and Choose.
Temas:
Ethelred > II, > King of England, > 968?-1016.
Ethelred > II, > King of England, > 968?-1016
979-1016
HISTORY > Europe > Great Britain.
Kings and rulers
Great Britain > History > Ethelred II, 979-1016.
Great Britain > Kings and rulers > Biography.
Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 978-1016 (Ethelred II)
Great Britain
Biography
Biographies
History
Biographies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: an unready and ill-counselled king?
  • Birth and childhood: the court of King Edgar c. 966-9?75
  • "Woe to thee, oh land, when thy king is a child": succession and dispute, 975-84
  • The prodigal son, 984-93
  • Repentance and reform, 993-1002
  • Apocalypse and invasion, 1002-9
  • A kingdom lost and won, 1009-16
  • Conclusion: an age of ill counsel?

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