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

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

• Edgar of England, Ælfthryth, Queen of England, Edward the Martyr, Canute the Great, Swein Forkbeard, Thorkell the Tall, Olaf Tryggvasson, Olaf Haraldson, Richard II of Norway, Ulfcytel Snillingr, Dunstan, Æthelwold of Winchester, Oswald of Worcester, Wulfstan II, Uchtred the Bold, Eadric Streona, Ælfwine, Ealdorman of East Anglia, Ælfhere, Ealdorman of Mercia, Byrhtnoth, Æthelflæd of Damerham, Edmund Ironside, Æthelstan Ætheling, Edward the Confessor, Emma of Normandy, Ælfhelm, Ealdorman of York, Wulfric Spot, Alfred Aetheling, Edred Aetheling, Ecgberht Ætheling, Eadwig Ætheling, Edgar Aetheling the Elder, Goda of England, Edith of Wilton, Ælfric of Hampshire ...

Sources

ASC and?

England in the 10th century

Stafford; Campbell et al; Keynes

Edgar

Stafford; Woolf; Blair; Campbell et al;

Queens and æthelings

Stafford; Williams; Lavelle; Higham

Minority

Williams; Lavelle

Vikings

Keynes; Williams; Lavelle; Woolf

Eadric

Williams; Lavelle; Higham; Stafford

Danes and Danegeld

Keynes; Williams; Lavelle

Cnut

Keynes; Williams; Lavelle; Lawson

Edmund

Keynes; Williams; Lavelle; Lawson; Higham

Reputation

TBD

References

• "Æthelred 32 (Male) the Unready; king of the English, 978–1016", Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England, retrieved 2008-04-13
• 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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