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The poem is literature, however, not history. As such it provides a window on the mentality and the values of its audience. Loyalty is lauded, betrayal and failure to fulfill one’s duty condemned.

— Richard Abels Æthelred the Unready: The Failed King (2018)

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Academic historians are by nature revisionists.

Æthelred the Unready: The Failed King (2018)

One suspects that many landowners thought Æthelred overly eager to find reasons to confiscate property.

Æthelred the Unready: The Failed King (2018)

Loyalty to the person of the king was the glue that unified an English kingdom so recently forged from separate peoples.

Æthelred the Unready: The Failed King (2018)

Æthelred was the only king in Western Christendom in 1002 who could reasonably expect that his decrees would be conveyed throughout his kingdom and perhaps even obeyed.

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