Product Description

Æthelred 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 Æthelred 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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #896235 in Books
• Published on: 2003-12-16
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 256 pages

Review
"fine-grained analysis" Times Literary Supplement

About the Author
ANN WILLIAMS is a leading historian of Anglo-Saxon England and the author of the English and Norman Conquest (1995). She is Senior Research Fellow at the University of East Anglia.