ENGLISH

Cnut the Great

By Timothy Bolton

Book information

Publisher
Yale University Press
Year
2017
ISBN
9780300226256
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
8 MB (8299998 bytes)
Pages
336\267
Time added
2023-05-30 01:33:57

Description

A seminal biography of the underappreciated eleventh-century Scandinavian warlord-turned-Anglo-Saxon monarch who united the English and Danish crowns to forge a North Sea empire CONTENTS PLATES PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS MAPS INTRODUCTION 1. Cnut’s Childhood and Youth 2. The Invasions of England in 1013 and 1016 3. The Early Years of Rule in England 4. The Rise to Dominance over Scandinavia 5. Cnut and the Field of European Politics 6. The Period of Mature Rule in England and Scandinavia 7. The Aftermath of Cnut’s Death CONCLUSION APPENDIX I: THE STORY OF CNUT AND THE WAVES APPENDIX II: CONCORDANCE OF CHARTERS CITED IN THIS VOLUME BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX

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