Levi Roach

Talk

• Unready for Rule? King Æthelred and the Vikings Revisited
• King's Manor
• Saturday 20 October
• 14.00–15.00

Few kings are as synonymous with failure as Æthelred ‘the Unready’. Hounded by Vikings and plagued by indecision, his reign seems to mark the beginning of the end of Anglo-Saxon England. In this talk, Levi will challenge this view, arguing that Æthelred was not as unsuccessful nor as ill-advised as is generally thought.