Author : Timothy Bolton
Release : 2017-02-07
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 25X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Cnut the Great by : Timothy Bolton
Download or read book Cnut the Great written by Timothy Bolton. This book was released on 2017-02-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.