Aethelred II: King of the English

by Ryan Lavelle

Too often dismissed as the unready king - unprepared, ill-advised, and incapable of dealing with the military and political crises that faced the Anglo-Saxon kingdom, not least of which were a series of Viking onslaughts - King Aethelred has gone down in history as an incompetent failure. This new biography redresses the indictment, placing Aethelred into his proper historical context. Central to the study is the authoritarian manner in which the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0752446789
• ISBN13: 9780752446783
• Release Date: November 2008
• Publisher: History Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.9" x 7.6"