Æthelred (died 23 April 1016) [IPA OE/ModE], called Æthelred the Unready, was King of England from 978 to 1016.[1]

Miller's four periods:

  • 978 to 984: Æthelwold and Ælfthryth
  • 984 to 993: Unræd
  • 993 to 1006: Ælfthryth again
  • 1006 to 1016: Eadric

Williams' divisions:

  • Death of Edward
  • Old Guard
  • Vikings
  • Change of Direction
  • Great Army
  • A Crisis Surmounted
  • Dissent and Disaster

Lavelle's divisions:

  • Kingdom of the English
  • The young ætheling
  • Second Viking Age begins
    • Early Medieval Scandinavia
  • Ruling the Kingdom
  • Family dynamics
  • Millennium
  • Defeats, resistance, failure?
    • Thorkell
  • Final years
  • Aftermath

Higham:

  • Legacy of King Edgar
  • Edward
  • Foundations of kinship
  • Mature king
  • Unmaking
  • King & aristocracy
  • Athelstan & the succession
  • Christmas 1006
  • Grand Fleet
  • Athelstan dies, Gainsborough agreement
  • Swein dies
  • Edmund and Eadric
  • Faction and kingship

John (in Campbell et al):

  • Edward the Martyr & Crisis
  • Aethelred & return of the Vikings
  • A's legislation
  • Wulfstan & Aelfric

Keynes (Diplomas, quoted Williams, Æthelred, xiv)

  • Institutions [Williams, Kingship, Blair, Loyn, Campbell]
  • Coinage and legislation in context [?John]
  • Church, learning, material culture [Yorke, Æthelwold, Dales, Blair, John]
  • Prosopography [?Keynes, Diplomas?, ?PASE?, Henson, Williams, Norman Conquest]
  • Furth of England [Woolf, Lund, Sawyer, Keynes, Hudson, Downham, Lawson, ?O Croinin? ... ?Francia? [Bates?] ?Germany? [Reuter?]]
  • Æthelred as actor [Williams, Lavelle]

Outline:

  • Lead
  • Introduction
    • Sources
    • Birth
    • Edward
    • Minority
    • New broom
    • Vikings
    • After
    • Danes
    • Finis
  • Institutions
    • Duces, satrapes
    • Laws
    • Coins
  • Church and learning
    • Bishops and abbots
    • Renaissance
  • Prosopography
    • Royal family
    • Ealdormen
    • Others
  • A's world
    • England
    • British Isles
    • Scandinavia
    • Francia and Germany
  • A
    • Reputation
    • ...
    • ...

Dramatis personae

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Sources

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ASC and?

England in the 10th century

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Stafford; Campbell et al; Keynes


Edgar

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Stafford; Woolf; Blair; Campbell et al;

Queens and æthelings

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Stafford; Williams; Lavelle; Higham

Minority

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Williams; Lavelle

Vikings

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Keynes; Williams; Lavelle; Woolf

Eadric

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Williams; Lavelle; Higham; Stafford

Danes and Danegeld

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Keynes; Williams; Lavelle

Cnut

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Keynes; Williams; Lavelle; Lawson

Edmund

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Keynes; Williams; Lavelle; Lawson; Higham

Reputation

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TBD

Notes

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  1. ^ Null ref.

References

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  • Swanton, Michael, ed. (1996), The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, New York: Routledge, ISBN 0-415-92129-5
  • Barlow, Frank (1997), Edward the Confessor, Yale English Monarchs, New Haven: Yale University Press, ISBN 0-300-07156-6
  • Blair, Peter Hunter (1977), An Introduction to Anglo-Saxon England (2nd ed.), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-29219-0
  • Campbell, James (2000), The Anglo-Saxon State, London: Hambledon & London, ISBN 1-85275-176-7 {{citation}}: Check |isbn= value: checksum (help)
  • Campbell, John; John, Eric; Wormald, Patrick (1982), The Anglo-Saxons, London: Phaidon, ISBN 0-14-014395-5
  • Downham, Clare (2007), Viking Kings of Britain and Ireland: The Dynasty of Ívarr to A.D. 1014, Edinburgh: Dunedin, ISBN 1-903765-89-0 {{citation}}: Check |isbn= value: checksum (help)
  • Henson, Donald (1997), A Guide to Late Anglo-Saxon England: From Ælfred to Eadgar II, Hockwold-cum-Wilton: Anglo-Saxon Books, ISBN 1-898281-21-1
  • Higham, N. J. (1999), "Danelaw", in Lapidge, Michael (ed.), The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Anglo-Saxon England, Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 136–137, ISBN 0-631-22492-0
  • Higham, N. J. (1997), The Death of Anglo-Saxon England, Stroud: Sutton, ISBN 0-7509-2469-1
  • Hudson, Benjamin (2005), Viking Pirates and Christian Princes: Dynasty, Religion and Empire in the North Atlantic, Oxford: Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-516237-4
  • Keynes, Simon (1997), "Vikings in England, c. 790–1016", in Sawyer, Peter (ed.), The Oxford Illustrated History of the Vikings, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 48–82, ISBN 0-19-285434-8
  • Lavelle, Ryan (2002), Aethelred II: King of the English 978–1016, Stroud: Tempus, ISBN 0-7524-1993-5
  • Lawson, M. K. (2004), Cnut: England's Viking King (2nd ed.), Stroud: Tempus, ISBN 0-7524-2964-7
  • Loyn, H. R. (1962), Anglo-Saxon England and the Norman Conquest, Longman Social and Economic History of England, London: Longman, ISBN 0-582-48232-1
  • Lund, Nils (1997), "The Danish Empire and the End of the Viking Age", in Sawyer, Peter (ed.), The Oxford Illustrated History of the Vikings, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 156–181, ISBN 0-19-285434-8
  • Miller, Sean (1999), "Æthelred the Unready", in Lapidge, Michael (ed.), The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Anglo-Saxon England, Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 15–16, ISBN 0-631-22492-0
  • Stafford, Pauline (1989), Unification and Conquest: A Political and Social History of England in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries, London: Edward Arnold, ISBN 0-7131-6532-4
  • Stenton, Frank M. (1971), Anglo-Saxon England (3rd ed.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-280139-2
  • Sturluson, Snorri (1964), Hollander, Lee M. (ed.), Heimskringla: History of the Kings of Norway, Austin: University of Texas Press, ISBN 0-292-73061-6
  • Williams, Ann (2003), Æthelred the Unready: The Ill-Counselled King, London: Hambledon & London, ISBN 1-85275-382-4 {{citation}}: Check |isbn= value: checksum (help)
  • Williams, Ann (1999), Kingship and Government in Pre-Conquest England c. 500–1066, Basingstoke: Macmillan, ISBN 0-333-56798-6
  • Woolf, Alex (2007), From Pictland to Alba 789–1070, The New Edinburgh History of Scotland, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, ISBN 0-7486-1234-5 {{citation}}: Check |isbn= value: checksum (help)
  • Wormald, Patrick (1999), "Laws", in Lapidge, Michael (ed.), The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Anglo-Saxon England, Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 279–280, ISBN 0-631-22492-0


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