About this Item
A good clean tight copy in similar, unclipped dustwrapper, of this hard-cover book. Deals with the life and reign of the Anglo-Saxon king Aethelred the Unready (c966-1016). 263pp (about a third of the book is notes to the text), 8pp b&w illustrations. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Seller Inventory # 012269
Bibliographic Details
Title: Aethelred the Unready: The Ill-Counselled ...
Publisher: Hambledon and London, London
Publication Date: 2003
Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
About this title
Æthelred became king of England in 978, following the murder of his brother Edward the Martyr (possibly at the instigation of their mother) at Corfe. On his own death in April 1016, his son Edmund Ironside succeeded him and fought the invading Danes bravely, but died in November of the same year after being defeated at the battle of Assandun, leading to the House of Wessex being replaced by a Danish king, Cnut. Æthelred, in constrast to his predecessor and successor, reigned (except for a few months in 1013-14), largely unchallenged for thirty-eight 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 Æthelred the Unready Ann Williams, a leading scholar on his reign, discounts the later rumours and misinterpretations that have dogged his reputation to construct a record of his reign from contemporary sources.
Ann Williams is Emeritus Reader in History at the University of North London and the author of The English and the Norman Conquest.
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