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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

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

Notes

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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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