Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- CONTENTS -- PLATES, MAPS AND FIGURES -- A NOTE ON NAME FORMS AND REFERENCES -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS AND SHORT TITLES -- INTRODUCTION AN UNREADY AND ILL-COUNSELLEDKING? -- CHAPTER 1 BIRTH AND CHILDHOOD -…
Medieval historian Levi Roach suggests that the king has been wrongly maligned all along. Drawing on extensive research, Roach argues that Æthelred was driven by pious concerns about sin, society and the anticipated apocalypse, and that his strategies, in this light, were to hon…
"Medieval historian Levi Roach suggests that the king has been wrongly maligned all along. Drawing on extensive research, Roach argues that Æthelred was driven by pious concerns about sin, society and the anticipated apocalypse, and that his strategies, in this light, were to ho…
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. Infamous fo…
An in-depth exploration of documentary forgery at the turn of the first millennium Forgery and Memory at the End of the First Millennium takes a fresh look at documentary forgery and historical memory in the Middle Ages. In the tenth and eleventh centuries, religious houses acro…