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The empire of Cnut the Great : conquest and the consolidation of power in Northern Europe in the early eleventh century /
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 Scandi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2009.
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| Colección: | Northern world ;
v. 40. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xvi, 351 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-343) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789047443308 9047443306 1282398490 9781282398498 9786612398490 6612398493 |
| ISSN: | 1569-1462 ; |