Æthelred the unready /
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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
[2016]
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Colección: | Online Access with DDA: GOBI Pick and Choose.
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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?