The poem is literature, however, not history. As such it pr… - Richard Abels

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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

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Richard Abels (born 1951) is an American educator, historian, and professor emeritus at the United States Naval Academy. Abels is a specialist in the military and political institutions of Anglo-Saxon England.

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Alternative Names: Richard P. Abels

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Geoffrey Elton Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay J. C. D. Clark William Stubbs Edward Gibbon

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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.

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

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

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