Empire of Cnut the Great

Conquest and the Consolidation of Power in Northern Europe in the Early Eleventh Century

AvTimothy Bolton

Inbunden, Engelska, 2008

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Beskrivning

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’.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2008-12-23
Mått:155 x 235 x 26 mm
Vikt:744 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Northern World
Antal sidor:352
Förlag:Brill
ISBN:9789004166707

Utforska kategorier

Europas historia inom Historia och arkeologi

Mer om författaren

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.

Innehållsförteckning

Preface and AcknowledgementsAbbreviationsList of FiguresGeneral IntroductionPart One The NAture of Cnut's Hegemonies in England1. Introduction2. National Government in Cnut's Reign: The Roayl Court3. The Government in the Localities of Southumbrian England in teh Reign of Cnut4. Cnut and the English Church5. Cnut and the Imperium of late Anglo-Saxon England: Northumbria, Wales, Scotland and IrelandPart Two The Nature of Cnut's Hegemonies in Scandinavia6. Introduction7. Cnut and the development of the 'MAchinery of Control' in Western and Central Denmark8. Cnut, Eastern Denmakr and the Baltic: The Struggle for Supremacy9. Danish Supremacy in Scandinavian in the Early Eleventh Century: Cnut and the Regmies of Norway and Sweden10.The Conquest of Norway and the Development of Imperial AspirationsConclusionsAppendix AAppendix BBibliographyIndex