Cnut the Great (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780300243185)

A seminal biography of Cnut, the underappreciated eleventh-century Scandinavian warlord-turned-Anglo-Saxon monarch who united the English and Danish crowns to forge a North Sea empire

"A gripping and revelatory biography of Britain's Danish conqueror."-- Simon Sebag Montefiore, The Week

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
ISBN-10: 0300243189
ISBN-13: 9780300243185
Publisher: Yale University Press
Language: English
Published: 03/12/2019
Pages: 268
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.10w x 0.90d