Athelred the Unready The Ill-Counselled King
by Williams, AnnFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2004-01-03
Publisher(s): Bloomsbury Academic
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Summary
thelred became king of England in 978, reigned largely unchallenged for 38 years, despite presiding over a period which saw many Danish invasions and much internal strife. If not a great king, he was certainly a survivor whose posthumous reputation and nickname (meaning "Noble Council the No Council") do him little justice. In "thelred the Unready Ann Williams, a leading scholar on his reign, discounts the later rumors and misinterpretations that have dogged his reputation to construct a record of his reign from contemporary sources.
Author Biography
Ann Williams is Senior Research Fellow of the University of East Anglia.
Table of Contents
| Illustrations | |
| Tables | |
| Preface | |
| Abbreviations | |
| The Gap of Corfe | p. 1 |
| The Old Guard and the Young King | p. 19 |
| The Great Terror | p. 43 |
| A Change of Direction | p. 69 |
| The Immense Raiding-Army | p. 91 |
| A Crisis Surmounted | p. 111 |
| Dissent and Disaster | p. 131 |
| A Note on 'Danegeld' | p. 151 |
| Notes | p. 155 |
| Bibliography | p. 231 |
| Index | p. 251 |
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