The Empire of Cnut the Great: Conquest and the Consolidation of Power in Northern Europe in the Early Eleventh CenturyBRILL, 2009 - 351 Seiten The reign of King Cnut the Great (1016a "1035) marks a pivotal point in the history of both England and Scandinavia, yet his conquests and his consolidation of power remain under-appreciated and rarely studied. Almost all existing scholarship has been geographically centred on either England or Scandinavia. However, this study, through a series of studies of individual aspects of his rise to power in those regions, seeks to encompass his entire dominion, and cast new light on our understanding of the nature of this political unit and contemporary figuresa (TM) conceptions of it. The result is a fresh impression of a number of aspects of Cnuta (TM)s rise to power as well as a new interpretation of this a ~empirea (TM). |
Inhalt
General Introduction | 1 |
PART ONE THE NATURE OF CNUTS HEGEMONIES IN ENGLAND | 7 |
Chapter One Introduction | 9 |
The Royal Court | 13 |
Chapter Three The Government in the Localities of Southumbrian England in the Reign of Cnut | 43 |
Chapter Four Cnut and the English Church | 77 |
Northumbria Wales Scotland and Ireland | 107 |
PART TWO THE NATURE OF CNUTS HEGEMONIES IN SCANDINAVIA | 151 |
The Struggle for Supremacy | 203 |
Chapter Nine Danish Supremacy in Scandinavia in the | 241 |
Chapter Ten The Conquest of Norway and the Development of Imperial Aspirations | 289 |
Conclusion | 317 |
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Chapter Six Introduction | 153 |
Chapter Seven Cnut and the Development of the Machinery of Control in Western and Central Denmark | 155 |
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