The Good, the Bad and the Unready: The remarkable truth behind history's strangest nicknames - Softcover

Easton, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141016426 ISBN 13: 9780141016429

Publisher: Penguin, 2008

Synopsis

The Good , the Bad and the Unready is the perfect book for discovering how one man could be both Charles the Scourge of God and Charles the Affable. Or who exactly it was that Vlad impaled. Or how some eighteen people earned the appellation 'the Great' (and that's not including Anthony the Great Bastard and Anne the Great Whore). Or why Joan the Mad never went anywhere without her husband's corpse.

The Reverend Robert Easton's irreverent guide to the most peculiar nicknames of history gives brief, funny biographies of not just the Good, the Bad and the Unready, but also the Shaggy, the Worthless, the Silly, the Elephant, the King of Slops and many more. Everybody history remembers for being blessed - or, more often, cursed - with a memorable moniker.

About this title

About the Author

Revd Robert Easton was given his first nickname - aged 7 - by his siblings: Ridiculous Robert. Since then he has been Robert the Editor, at Boydell and Brewer, publishers of medieval history and literature; Robert the Correspondent, for BBC Radio, and mostly recently the Revd Robert, chaplain at Brighton College.

Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0141016426
• ISBN 13: 9780141016429
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320