The Empire of Cnut the Great : Conquest and the Consolidation of Power in Northern Europe in the Early Eleventh Century (The Northern World)

Bolton, Timothy

Brill Academic Pub（2009/02発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 351 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004166707
• DDC分類 942.0181092

Full Description

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'.

Contents

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