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Athelred the Unready

Author : Ann Williams
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9781852853822
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (538 download)

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Download or read book Athelred the Unready written by Ann Williams and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Æthelred

Author : Levi Roach
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300225202
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Æthelred written by Levi Roach and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-15 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: divAn 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

England's Unlikely Commander

Author : Brandon M. Bender
Publisher : Rounded Globe
ISBN 13 : 9780578559544
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (595 download)

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Download or read book England's Unlikely Commander written by Brandon M. Bender and published by Rounded Globe. This book was released on 2019-04-16 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the realm of popular history, it's common to hear the claim that Æthelred the Unready, King of the English, was a military failure in an age where kings had to be warriors. Due to the unflattering nickname (unraed actually means "poorly-advised") and the Danish Conquest of England, it might seem that these critics have won the argument before it's even started.That isn't the case, though, as Bender's research has found. This book seeks to redress King Æthelred's military reputation, arguing that he was militarily prepared and often successful against his many enemies, including the Vikings. Tracking the king's movement and activity over his 38-year reign, this book argues that Æthelred the Unready was anything but a battle-avoider.

Aethelred the Unready (Penguin Monarchs)

Author : Richard Abels
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 014197950X
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book Aethelred the Unready (Penguin Monarchs) written by Richard Abels and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2018-10-25 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major new title in the Penguin Monarchs series In his fascinating new book in the Penguin Monarchs series, Richard Abels examines the long and troubled reign of Aethelred II the 'Unraed', the 'Ill-Advised'. It is characteristic of Aethelred's reign that its greatest surviving work of literature, the poem The Battle of Maldon, should be a record of heroic defeat. Perhaps no ruler could have stemmed the encroachment of wave upon wave of Viking raiders, but Aethelred will always be associated with that failure. Richard Abels is Professor Emeritus at the United States Naval Academy. He is the author of Alfred the Great: War, Kingship and Culture in Anglo-Saxon England and Lordship and Military Obligation in Anglo-Saxon England. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

Aethelred II

Author : Ryan Lavelle
Publisher : English Monarchs
ISBN 13 : 9780752446783
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (467 download)

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Download or read book Aethelred II written by Ryan Lavelle and published by English Monarchs. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a biography of Anglo-Saxon England's notoriously weak king, Aethelred II the 'Unready'.

Athelstan (Penguin Monarchs)

Author : Tom Holland
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0241187826
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Athelstan (Penguin Monarchs) written by Tom Holland and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2016-06-30 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The formation of England occurred against the odds: an island divided into rival kingdoms, under savage assault from Viking hordes. But, after King Alfred ensured the survival of Wessex and his son Edward expanded it, his grandson Athelstan inherited the rule of both Mercia and Wessex, conquered Northumbria and was hailed as Rex totius Britanniae: 'King of the whole of Britain'. Tom Holland recounts this extraordinary story with relish and drama, transporting us back to a time of omens, raven harbingers and blood-red battlefields. As well as giving form to the figure of Athelstan - devout, shrewd, all too aware of the precarious nature of his power, especially in the north - he introduces the great figures of the age, including Alfred and his daughter Aethelflaed, 'Lady of the Mercians', who brought Athelstan up at the Mercian court. Making sense of the family rivalries and fractious conflicts of the Anglo-Saxon rulers, Holland shows us how a royal dynasty rescued their kingdom from near-oblivion and fashioned a nation that endures to this day.

Shadow on the Crown

Author : Patricia Bracewell
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101606193
Total Pages : 483 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Shadow on the Crown written by Patricia Bracewell and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-02-07 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rich tale of power and forbidden love revolving around a young medieval queen In 1002, fifteen-year-old Emma of Normandy crosses the Narrow Sea to wed the much older King Athelred of England, whom she meets for the first time at the church door. Thrust into an unfamiliar and treacherous court, with a husband who mistrusts her, stepsons who resent her and a bewitching rival who covets her crown, Emma must defend herself against her enemies and secure her status as queen by bearing a son. Determined to outmaneuver her adversaries, Emma forges alliances with influential men at court and wins the affection of the English people. But her growing love for a man who is not her husband and the imminent threat of a Viking invasion jeopardize both her crown and her life. Based on real events recorded in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Shadow on the Crown introduces readers to a fascinating, overlooked period of history and an unforgettable heroine whose quest to find her place in the world will resonate with modern readers.

Writing Medieval Biography, 750-1250

Author : Frank Barlow
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Writing Medieval Biography, 750-1250 written by Frank Barlow and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A survey both of medieval biographical writings, and the problems of recovering medieval lives. Biography is one of the oldest, most popular and most tenacious of literary forms. Perhaps the best attested narrative form of the Middle Ages, it continues to draw modern historians of the medieval period to its peculiar challenge to explicate the general through the particular: the biographer's decisions to impose or to resist the imposition of order on biographical remnants raise issues which go to the heart of historical method. This collection, compiled in honour of a distinguished modern exponent of the art of biography, contains sixteen essays by leading scholars which examine the limits and possibilities of the genre for the period between 750AD and 1250AD. Ranging from pivotal figures such as Charlemagne, William the Conqueror and St Bernard, to the anonymous female skeleton in an Anglo-Saxon grave, from kings and queens to clerks and saints, and from individual to the collective biographies, this collection investigates both medieval biographical writings, and the issues surrounding the writing of medieval lives. Professor DAVID BATES is Director of the Institute of Historical Research; Dr JULIA CRICK and DrSARAH HAMILTON teach in the Department of History at the University of Exeter. Contributors: JANET L. NELSON, ROBIN FLEMING, BARBARA YORKE, RICHARD ABELS, SIMON KEYNES, PAULINE STAFFORD, ELISABETH VAN HOUTS, DAVID BATES, JANE MARTINDALE, CHRISTOPHER HOLDSWORTH, LINDY GRANT, MARJORIE CHIBNALL, EDMUND KING, JOHN GILLINGHAM, DAVID CROUCH, NICHOLAS VINCENT

Anglo-Saxon History

Author : David A.E. Pelteret
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000525910
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Anglo-Saxon History written by David A.E. Pelteret and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-10-28 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2000, Basic Readings in Anglo-Saxon England (BRASE) is a series of volumes that collect classic, exemplary, or ground-breaking essays in the fields of Anglo-Saxon studies generally written in the 1960s or later, or commissioned by a volume editor to fulfill the purpose of the given volume. This, the sixth volume in the series, is the first devoted to history and the first edited by a scholar outside the field of literary study. David Pelteret has collected fifteen previously published essays: the first nine of his essays present a conspectus of Anglo-Saxon history; the other seven are spread among seven "Special Approaches": Anthropology, Archaeology, Art History, Economic and Comparative History, Geography and Geology, Place-Names, and Topography and Archaeology.

Great Tales from English History

Author : Robert Lacey
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0759511616
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (595 download)

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Download or read book Great Tales from English History written by Robert Lacey and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2004-06-03 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With insight, humor and fascinating detail, Lacey brings brilliantly to life the stories that made England -- from Ethelred the Unready to Richard the Lionheart, the Venerable Bede to Piers the Ploughman. The greatest historians are vivid storytellers, Robert Lacey reminds us, and in Great Tales from English History, he proves his place among them, illuminating in unforgettable detail the characters and events that shaped a nation. In this volume, Lacey limns the most important period in England's past, highlighting the spread of the English language, the rejection of both a religion and a traditional view of kingly authority, and an unstoppable movement toward intellectual and political freedom from 1387 to 1689. Opening with Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and culminating in William and Mary's "Glorious Revolution," Lacey revisits some of the truly classic stories of English history: the Battle of Agincourt, where Henry V's skilled archers defeated a French army three times as large; the tragic tale of the two young princes locked in the Tower of London (and almost certainly murdered) by their usurping uncle, Richard III; Henry VIII's schismatic divorce, not just from his wife but from the authority of the Catholic Church; "Bloody Mary" and the burning of religious dissidents; Sir Francis Drake's dramatic, if questionable, part in the defeat of the Spanish Armada; and the terrible and transformative Great Fire of London, to name but a few. Here Anglophiles will find their favorite English kings and queens, villains and victims, authors and architects - from Richard II to Anne Boleyn, the Virgin Queen to Oliver Cromwell, Samuel Pepys to Christopher Wren, and many more. Continuing the "eminently readable, highly enjoyable" (St. Louis Post-Dispatch) history he began in volume I of Great Tales from English History, Robert Lacey has drawn on the most up-to-date research to present a taut and riveting narrative, breathing life into the most pivotal characters and exciting landmarks in England's history.

English and Norse Documents

Author : Margaret Ashdown
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107419239
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book English and Norse Documents written by Margaret Ashdown and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-08-14 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1930, this book contains the text of Old English and Norse documents pertaining to events around the Battle of Maldon, which resulted in defeat for the Anglo-Saxons, led by Aethelred the Unready. A translation into modern English is provided on the facing page of each page of original text. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in historic Anglo-Saxon relations with the Norse.

Elfrida

Author : Elizabeth Norton
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445614928
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book Elfrida written by Elizabeth Norton and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2013-08-15 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first-ever biography of the most powerful woman of tenth-century England.

The Norman Conquest

Author : Marc Morris
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1639364005
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (393 download)

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Download or read book The Norman Conquest written by Marc Morris and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-09-13 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A riveting and authoritative history of the single most important event in English history: The Norman Conquest. An upstart French duke who sets out to conquer the most powerful and unified kingdom in Christendom. An invasion force on a scale not seen since the days of the Romans. One of the bloodiest and most decisive battles ever fought. This new history explains why the Norman Conquest was the most significant cultural and military episode in English history. Assessing the original evidence at every turn, Marc Morris goes beyond the familiar outline to explain why England was at once so powerful and yet so vulnerable to William the Conqueror’s attack. Morris writes with passion, verve, and scrupulous concern for historical accuracy. This is the definitive account for our times of an extraordinary story, indeed the pivotal moment in the shaping of the English nation.

Emma, the Twice-crowned Queen

Author : Isabella Strachan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Emma, the Twice-crowned Queen written by Isabella Strachan and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Known in 'The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles' simply as 'the Lady', Emma was a wife, mother and widow as well as a queen. Standing at the meeting point of the three cultures of the early Middle Ages - Saxon, Viking and Norman - Emma and her queenship provide a captivating picture of a still-misperceived age.

Empires of the Normans

Author : Levi Roach
Publisher : John Murray
ISBN 13 : 9781529300321
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Empires of the Normans written by Levi Roach and published by John Murray. This book was released on 2023-03-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'In this fascinating, panoramic account, Levi Roach brings an expert eye and page-turning energy to the telling of their extraordinary story' Helen Castor, bestselling author of She Wolves 'A fresh retelling of the story of the Normans . . . written with enthusiasm and brio' Marc Morris, bestselling author of The Anglo-Saxons How did descendants of Viking marauders come to dominate Europe, the Mediterranean and the Middle East? It is a tale of ambitious adventures and fierce freebooters, of fortunes made and fortunes lost. The Normans made their influence felt across all of western Europe and the Mediterranean, from the British Isles to North Africa, and Lisbon to the Holy Land. In Empires of the Normans we discover how they combined military might and political savvy with deeply held religious beliefs and a profound sense of their own destiny. For a century and a half, they remade Europe in their own image, and yet their heritage was quickly forgotten - until now.

Anglo-Scandinavian England

Author : John D. Niles
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Anglo-Scandinavian England written by John D. Niles and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The papers in this volume contribute to a more precise assessment of the interconnections between England and Scandinavia during the period from the establishment of the Danelaw to the Norman Conquest. The essays fall into three groups of concern: history, myth, and the language of poetry. Contents: Introduction: The Vikings and England; The Viking Policy of Ethelred the Unready; The Viking Policy of Ethelred: A Response; Ethelred II, Olaf Tryggvason, and the Conversion of Norway; Norse Mythology and Northumbria: Methodological Notes; Norse Mythology and Northumbria: A Response; Did Anglo-Saxon Audiences Have a Skaldic Tooth?; Skaldic Technique in Brunanburh; and Maldon As It Really Was. Co-published with the Old English Colloquium

Edgar, King of the English, 959-75

Author : Peter Rex
Publisher : Tempus Publishing, Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Edgar, King of the English, 959-75 written by Peter Rex and published by Tempus Publishing, Limited. This book was released on 2007 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edgar, youngest son of King Edmund of Wessex, became ruler of a united England in 959. Although he became known as Edgar "the Peaceable," he ruled his country with an iron fist. His strict government was backed by military forces which deterred invasion by the Vikings. No such invading occurred from the time Eric Bloodaxe left York in 954 until 980, five years after Edgar's death. In this detailed account, Peter Rex follows his reign, during which he introduced the first form of national taxation, married at least twice, and fathered Edward the Martyr and Ethelred II, "the Unready."