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: | Buch |
| Sprache: | English |
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New Haven London : Yale University Press,
[2017]
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| Mit dem übergeordneten Werk verknüpfte Titel: | Yale English monarchs
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| Schlagworte: | Danes Kings and rulers Knut |
| Umfang: | xiii, 2, 244 Seiten, 8 ungezählte Seiten |
| Zusammenfassung: | 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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| Beschreibung: | Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 220-240 |
| Beschreibung: | xiii, 2, 244 Seiten, 8 ungezählte Seiten Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 0300208332 9780300208337 9780300243185 0300243189 |