Aethelred the Unready
Simon Keynes discusses the life of Aethelred, the Anglo-Saxon monarch who ruled over one of the most turbulent times of English history.
The Anglo Saxons are somewhat out of fashion, yet the half millennium between the creation of the English nation in around 550 and the Norman Conquest in 1066 was a formative one.
This major series rediscovers the Anglo-Saxons through vivid portraits of thirty key individuals.
Aethelred's name is a combination of the Old English word aethel, meaning 'noble, excellent', and raed, meaning 'advice, counsel'. Simon Keynes probes the life of this Anglo-Saxon monarch who ruled over one of the most turbulent times of English history.
Producer: Sarah Taylor
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- Tue 16 Apr 2013 22:45麻豆社 Radio 3
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