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The Empire of Cnut the Great
Conquest and the Consolidation of Power in Northern Europe in the Early Eleventh Century
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English
Published/Copyright:
2009
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The reign of King Cnut the Great (1016–1035) marks a pivotal point in the history of both England and Scandinavia, yet his conquests and his consolidation of power remain under-appreciated and rarely studied. Almost all existing scholarship has been geographically centred on either England or Scandinavia. However, this study, through a series of studies of individual aspects of his rise to power in those regions, seeks to encompass his entire dominion, and cast new light on our understanding of the nature of this political unit and contemporary figures’ conceptions of it. The result is a fresh impression of a number of aspects of Cnut’s rise to power as well as a new interpretation of this ‘empire’.
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Timothy Bolton, Ph.D. (2005) in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, is the Specialist in Western Medieval Manuscripts at Sotheby's. He has published a number of studies in journals such as Medieval Scandinavia and Nottingham Medieval Studies on various aspects of Anglo-Scandinavian rule in England and Scandinavia.
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eBook published on:
October 31, 2008
eBook ISBN:
9789047443308
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Main content:
351
eBook ISBN:
9789047443308
Keywords for this book
Cnut; Anglo-Scandinavian; Anglo-Saxon; England; Scandinavia; Denmark; Norway; Conquest; Politics; Eleventh; Century
Audience(s) for this book
All those interested in Anglo-Saxon history, early Anglo-Norman history, early medieval Scandinavian history, and the history of medieval politics and conquest.
