[PDF] Cnut The Great eBook

Author : Timothy Bolton
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 47,61 MB
Release : 2017-02-07
Category : History
ISBN : 030022625X

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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, 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.

Author : Timothy Bolton
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 17,42 MB
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 900416670X

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Drawing on a wide range of types of evidence this book offers a fresh impression of the a ~empirea (TM) built by King Cnut (1016a "1035) in England and Scandinavia, and offers insights into contemporary developments in the conceptions of this new dominion.

Author : W. B. Bartlett
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 14,24 MB
Release : 2016-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1445645920

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The first ever full biography of England's Viking king and how he conquered England.

Author : Michael Kenneth Lawson
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 25,99 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :

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A Students Grammar of the English Language draws on the most recent research, including new findings not only in grammar but also in the neighbouring fields of semantics, pragmatics and text linguistics. Discourse features are dealt with throughout, as well as being the theme of a major chapter entitled form 'sentence to text' The authors are careful to point out those features of grammar which distinguish spoken from written, formal from informal, and British form American English.

Author : Richard North
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 569 pages
File Size : 27,31 MB
Release : 2022-06-21
Category : History
ISBN : 1501513338

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Anglo-Danish Empire is an interdisciplinary handbook for the Danish conquest of England in 1016 and the subsequent reign of King Cnut the Great. Bringing together scholars from the fields of history, literature, archaeology, and manuscript studies, the volume offers comprehensive analysis of England’s shift from Anglo-Saxon to Danish rule. It follows the history of this complicated transition, from the closing years of the reign of King Æthelred II and the Anglo-Danish wars, to Cnut’s accession to the throne of England and his consolidation of power at home and abroad. Ruling from 1016 to 1035, Cnut drew England into a Scandinavian empire that stretched from Ireland to the Baltic. His reign rewrote the place of Denmark and England within Europe, altering the political and cultural landscapes of both countries for decades to come.

Author : Michael Kenneth Lawson
Publisher : Tempus Publishing, Limited
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 32,78 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :

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King Cnut ruled England from 1017 to 1035 and left behind him a legacy of peace, law and order. However at the beginning he was a cruel and vicious warrior, who invaded England with his father Swegen Forkbeard, perhaps at a tender age. In 1014 Cnut returned to England from Denmark and conquered much of England in his bid for the Crown. The road to obtaining the crown was not easy and in the end Cnut triumphed by beating the alternative candidate at the battle of Ashingdon.

Author : Alexander R. Rumble
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 12,38 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :

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"The reign of King Cnut is here reassessed in the light of modern advances in the application of numismatic, literary, documentary and onomastic evidence to historical studies. Demonstrating that 'national' histories must be placed in their European context, this collection of studies adopts both an interdisciplinary and an international approach to examine the figure of Cnut as ruler not only of England (1016-35) but also of Denmark and Norway." "How did Cnut's experience and obligations as king of one country influence his actions as ruler of others? Were his policies consistent or purely pragmatic? What were the economic and social effects of his rule? The studies in this collection serve to illuminate the various influences that operated on Cnut as king and also to explain some of his own actions in a fresh way. It includes both studies of particular types of evidence (charters, coins, runic inscriptions, skaldic verse, relics, names) and of the political policies and events of his rule as overlord of different dominions. It aims not only to inform but also to stimulate further study."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Levi Roach
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 23,98 MB
Release : 2016-09-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0300225202

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divAn imaginative reassessment of Æthelred "the Unready," one of medieval England’s most maligned kings and a major Anglo-Saxon figure The Anglo-Saxon king Æthelred "the Unready" (978–1016) has

Author : Ryan Lavelle
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 22,31 MB
Release : 2017-12-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0141979887

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Cnut, or Canute, is one of the great 'what ifs' of English history. The Dane who became King of England after a long period of Viking attacks and settlement, his reign could have permanently shifted eleventh-century England's rule to Scandinavia. Stretching his authority across the North Sea to become king of Denmark and Norway, and with close links to Ireland and an overlordship of Scotland, this formidable figure created a Viking Empire at least as plausible as the Anglo-Norman Empire that would emerge in 1066. Ryan Lavelle's illuminating book cuts through myths and misconceptions to explore this fascinating and powerful man in detail. Cnut is most popularly known now for the story of the king who tried to command the waves, relegated to a bit part in the medieval story, but as this biography shows, he was a conqueror, political player, law maker and empire builder on the grandest scale, one whose reign tells us much about the contingent nature of history.