Cnut the Great /
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 Historian Timothy Bolton offers a fascinating reappraisal of one of the most misunderstood of the Anglo-Saxon kings: Cnut,...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
[2017]
New Haven ; London : 2017 |
| Series: | Yale English monarchs
Yale English monarchs |
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| Summary: | 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 Historian Timothy Bolton offers a fascinating reappraisal of one of the most misunderstood of the Anglo-Saxon kings: Cnut, the powerful Danish warlord who conquered England and created a North Sea empire in the eleventh century. This seminal biography draws from a wealth of written and archaeological sources to provide the most detailed accounting to date of the life and accomplishments of a remarkable figure in European history, a forward-thinking warrior-turned-statesman who created a new Anglo-Danish regime through designed internationalism |
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| Item Description: | This WorldCat-derived record is shareable under Open Data Commons ODC-BY, with attribution to OCLC |
| Physical Description: | xiii, 244 pages ; 24 cm xiii, 244 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 220-240) and index |
| ISBN: | 0300208332 9780300208337 |