Cnut the Great

by Timothy Bolton

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300208332
• ISBN13: 9780300208337
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.3"