Aethelred the Unready (Penguin Monarchs) - The Failed King

athelred''s reign of nearly thirty-eight years was the longest of any Anglo-Saxon ruler. If he had died in AD 1000, history would have remembered him more kindly''br>br>Few monarchs of the Middle Ages have had a worse popular reputation than athelred II, ''the Unready'', remembered as the king who lost England to Viking invaders. But, as Richard Abels shows, the failure to defend his realm was not entirely his alone. athelred was in many ways an innovative ruler but one whose challenges - a divided court, a fragile nascent kingdom, a voracious, hydra-headed enemy - were ultimately too great to overcome.>

Product details

• Authors: Richard Abels, Abels Richard
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.12.2021
• EAN: 9780141999371
• ISBN: 978-0-14-199937-1
• No. of pages: 160
• Dimensions: 111 mm x 181 mm x 8 mm
• Series: Penguin Monarchs
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Novel-like biographies; Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Biographies, autobiographies; England, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, Biography: historical, political & military, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Middle Ages (449-1066), Medieval History, British & Irish history, Biography: historical, political and military, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval, C 500 CE To C 1000 CE, European history: the Vikings, 10th century, c 900 to c 999, 11th century, c 1000 to c 1099