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Æthelred (died 23 April 1016) [IPA OE/ModE], called Æthelred the Unready, was King of England from 978 to 1016.

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

 * Edgar of England, Ælfthryth, Queen of England, Edward the Martyr, Canute the Great, Swein Forkbeard, Thorkell the Tall, Olaf Tryggvasson, Olaf Haraldson, Richard II of Norway, Ulfcytel Snillingr, Dunstan, Æthelwold of Winchester, Oswald of Worcester, Wulfstan II, Uchtred the Bold, Eadric Streona, Ælfwine, Ealdorman of East Anglia, Ælfhere, Ealdorman of Mercia, Byrhtnoth, Æthelflæd of Damerham, Edmund Ironside, Æthelstan Ætheling, Edward the Confessor, Emma of Normandy, Ælfhelm, Ealdorman of York, Wulfric Spot, Alfred Aetheling, Edred Aetheling, Ecgberht Ætheling, Eadwig Ætheling, Edgar Aetheling the Elder, Goda of England, Edith of Wilton, Ælfric of Hampshire ...

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