Cnut the Great

von Timothy Bolton

268 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Reihe: The English Monarchs Series
• Themen: Biographie, Literatur und Literaturwissenschaft Biografien und Sachliteratur Allgemein Könige und Königinnen
• ISBN: 9780300243185
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 26.02.2019
• Größe: 233 x 158 mm
• Verlag: Yale University Press