Æthelred : The Unready.

Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- CONTENTS -- PLATES, MAPS AND FIGURES -- A NOTE ON NAME FORMS AND REFERENCES -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS AND SHORT TITLES -- INTRODUCTION AN UNREADY AND ILL-COUNSELLEDKING? -- CHAPTER 1 BIRTH AND CHILDHOOD -- England between Alfred the Great and Edgar 'the Peacemaker' (871-957/9) -- The reign of King Edgar: administrative consolidation -- King Edgar and the church: monastic reform -- Family and faction: Æthelred at the court of King Edgar -- CHAPTER 2 'WOE TO THEE, OH LAND, WHEN THY KING IS A CHILD' -- Crisis and consolidation, 975 -- The 'anti-monastic reaction' -- The life and death of a 'holy innocent': Edward II as king and martyr, 975-8 -- Regency rule: Ælfthryth and Æthelwold, 978-84 -- CHAPTER 3 THE PRODIGAL SON 984-93 -- Growing independence: ruling the roost and the realm -- From regency rule to 'youthful indiscretion' -- The wages of sin -- Maldon: the poem and the battle -- CHAPTER 4 REPENTANCE AND REFORM 993-1002 -- The politics of penance -- Repentance and reform -- The cult of King Edward -- Defending the realm -- CHAPTER 5 APOCALYPSE AND INVASION 1002-9 -- The Massacre of St Brice's Day -- The 'Palace Revolution', 1005-6 -- Sin and society, 1006-9 -- Crime and punishment -- Apocalypse and atonement -- CHAPTER 6 A KINGDOM LOST AND WON 1009-16 -- From crisis to collapse: Thorkell's 'immense raiding army', 1009-12 -- Calamity and response, 1009-12 -- Faction, friction and conquest, 1013-16 -- CONCLUSION AN AGE OF ILL COUNSEL? -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.

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