Author : W. B. Bartlett
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 30,9 MB
Release : 2016-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1445645920
The first ever full biography of England's Viking king and how he conquered England.
Author : Michael Kenneth Lawson
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 15,37 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
A Students Grammar of the English Language draws on the most recent research, including new findings not only in grammar but also in the neighbouring fields of semantics, pragmatics and text linguistics. Discourse features are dealt with throughout, as well as being the theme of a major chapter entitled form 'sentence to text' The authors are careful to point out those features of grammar which distinguish spoken from written, formal from informal, and British form American English.
Author : Laura Ashe
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 49,19 MB
Release : 2020-04-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783274161
The cataclysmic conquests of the eleventh century are here set together for the first time.
Author : Michael Kenneth Lawson
Publisher : Tempus Publishing, Limited
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 50,10 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
King Cnut ruled England from 1017 to 1035 and left behind him a legacy of peace, law and order. However at the beginning he was a cruel and vicious warrior, who invaded England with his father Swegen Forkbeard, perhaps at a tender age. In 1014 Cnut returned to England from Denmark and conquered much of England in his bid for the Crown. The road to obtaining the crown was not easy and in the end Cnut triumphed by beating the alternative candidate at the battle of Ashingdon.
Author : Timothy Bolton
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 24,34 MB
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 900416670X
Drawing on a wide range of types of evidence this book offers a fresh impression of the a ~empirea (TM) built by King Cnut (1016a "1035) in England and Scandinavia, and offers insights into contemporary developments in the conceptions of this new dominion.
Author : Martyn Whittock
Publisher : Crowood Press (UK)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 25,31 MB
Release : 2017-05
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 9780719819193
The Norman Conquest of 1066 and the Viking Conquest by Cnut in 1016 both had huge impacts on the history of England, and yet "1066" has eclipsed "1016" in popular culture. This book challenges that side-lining of Cnut's conquest by presenting compelling evidence that the Viking Conquest of 1016 was the single most influential cause of 1066. This neglected Viking Conquest of 1016 led to the exiling to Normandy and Hungary of the rightful Anglo-Saxon heirs to the English throne, entangled English politics with those of Normandy and Scandinavia, purged and destabilized the Anglo-Saxon ruling class, caused an English king to look abroad for allies in his conflict with over-mighty subjects, and, finally, in 1066 ensured that Harold Godwinson was in the north of England when the Normans landed on the south coast. As if that was not enough, it was the continuation of the Scandinavian connection after 1066 which largely ensured that a Norman victory became a traumatic Norman Conquest.
Author : Timothy Bolton
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 17,48 MB
Release : 2017-02-07
Category : History
ISBN : 030022625X
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 from a wealth of written and archaeological sources to provide the most detailed accounting to date of the life and accomplishments of a remarkable figure in European history, a forward-thinking warrior-turned-statesman who created a new Anglo-Danish regime through designed internationalism.
Author : Harriet O'Brien
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 31,44 MB
Release : 2010-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1596918705
A stunning history of power, love and greed in 11th-century England - the remarkable story of Queen Emma and the Vikings 'Harriet O'Brien recreates this intriguing and complex world with skill and imagination' Daily Telegraph 'O'Brien's story is a dramatic one, and her Queen Emma a commanding, shrewd and manipulative figure ... genuinely powerful' Guardian Emma was one of England's most remarkable queens: a formidable woman who made her mark on a Europe beset by Vikings. By birth a Norman, she married and outlived two kings of England and witnessed the coronations of two of her sons: Harthcnut the Viking and Edward the Confessor. She became an unscrupulous political player and was diversely regarded as a generous Christian patron, the admired co-regent of the nation, and a ruthlessly Machiavellian mother. She was, above all, a survivor: her life was punctuated by dramatic falls, all of which she overcame. Her story is one of power, politics, love, greed and scandal in an England caught between the Dark Ages and the Norman invasion of 1066.
Author : Levi Roach
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 26,63 MB
Release : 2016-09-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0300225202
divAn imaginative reassessment of Æthelred "the Unready," one of medieval England’s most maligned kings and a major Anglo-Saxon figure The Anglo-Saxon king Æthelred "the Unready" (978–1016) has
Author : Teresa Cole
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 43,22 MB
Release : 2016-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1445649233
The origins, course & outcomes of William the Conqueror's conquest of England 1051-1087.
