Cnut the Great /

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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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Main Author: Bolton, Timothy (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2017]
New Haven ; London : 2017
Series:Yale English monarchs
Yale English monarchs
Subjects:
Canute > I, > King of England, > 995?-1035
Canute > I > King of England, > 995?-1035
Knud > II > Danmark, Konge > 995-1035
Knud > II > Danmark, Konge > 995-1035.
Knut > Dänemark, König > 995-1035
1017-1035
Canute, 1017-1035
Danes > England > History
Danes
History
Kings and rulers
Kings and rulers > Biography
Denmark > Kings and rulers > Biography
Great Britain > History > Canute, 1017-1035
Great Britain > Kings and rulers > Biography
Norway > Kings and rulers > Biography
Denmark
England
Great Britain
Norway
Biographies
Biography
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Cnut's childhood and youth: the beginnings of a conqueror
  • The invasions of England in 1013 and 1016
  • The early years of rule in England
  • The rise to dominance over Scandinavia
  • Cnut and the field of European politics
  • The period of mature rule in England and Scandinavia
  • The aftermath of Cnut's death

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