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Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; xix, 263 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-250) and index. Contents; The gap of Corfe -- The old guard and the young king -- The great terror -- A change of direction -- The immense raiding-army -- A crisis surmounted -- Dissent and disaster -- Appendix: A note on 'Danegeld.' Subjects; Ethelred II, King of England 968?-1016. Ethelred King of England. Aethelred II King of England 978-1016. Kings and rulers. Great Britain Ethelred II, 979 1016. Great Britain. Aethelred II, 979 1016. Great Britain. Anglo-Saxons Kings and rulers. Great Britain Kings and rulers ; Biography. Great Britain. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 396879
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Title: Æthelred the Unready : the ill-counselled ...
Publisher: London ; New York : Hambledon and London : Distributed in the United States and Canada exclusively by Palgrave Macillan
Publication Date: 2003
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: First Edition.
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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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