Was King Æthelred Really Unready?
'tis but a scratch: fact and fiction about the Middle Ages - Podcast autorstwa Richard Abels
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Send us a textFew English kings have had a worse popular reputation than Æthelred the Unready (r.978-1016), the king who lost England (at least temporarily) to viking invaders. But does he deserve that reputation? Was King Æthelred really "unready"? My co-host for this episode is the person most qualified to answer that question, Dr. Levy Roach of the University of Exeter in the U.K, author of Æthelred the Unready (Yale University Press, 2016). Please join Levy and me as we ...
