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, 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.

Ancient history · Anglo saxon · Art history · Biography · Danish · Eleventh · Empire · Internationalism (politics) · Political science · Politics · Classics · Globalization and political ideologies · Historical and Archaeological Studies · History · Law · Medieval Literature and History · Philosophy · 995-1035 · biography · Canute the great, king of england and denmark · Danes · Great britain · Kings and rulers