The Empire of Cnut the Great

Conquest and the Consolidation of Power in Northern Europe in the Early Eleventh Century
Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-90-04-16670-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 40, 352 Seiten, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 647 g

Reihe: The Northern World

The reign of King Cnut the Great (1016–1035) 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 figures’ conceptions of it. The result is a fresh impression of a number of aspects of Cnut’s rise to power as well as a new interpretation of this ‘empire’.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bolton, Timothy

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Vor- und Frühgeschichte, prähistorische Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface and Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
List of Figures

General Introduction

Part One The NAture of Cnut's Hegemonies in England
1. Introduction
2. National Government in Cnut's Reign: The Roayl Court
3. The Government in the Localities of Southumbrian England in teh Reign of Cnut
4. Cnut and the English Church
5. Cnut and the Imperium of late Anglo-Saxon England: Northumbria, Wales, Scotland and Ireland

Part Two The Nature of Cnut's Hegemonies in Scandinavia
6. Introduction
7. Cnut and the development of the 'MAchinery of Control' in Western and Central Denmark
8. Cnut, Eastern Denmakr and the Baltic: The Struggle for Supremacy
9. Danish Supremacy in Scandinavian in the Early Eleventh Century: Cnut and the Regmies of Norway and Sweden
10.The Conquest of Norway and the Development of Imperial Aspirations

Conclusions
Appendix A
Appendix B
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Timothy Bolton, Ph.D. (2005) in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, is the Specialist in Western Medieval Manuscripts at Sotheby's. He has published a number of studies in journals such as Medieval Scandinavia and Nottingham Medieval Studies on various aspects of Anglo-Scandinavian rule in England and Scandinavia.