King Cnut and the Viking Conquest of England 1016 9781445645872

The Viking Conquest of England in 1016 – a far tougher and more brutal campaign than the Norman Conquest exactly half a

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King Cnut and the Viking Conquest of England 1016
9781445645872

Cnut, or Canute, is one of the great 'what ifs' of English history. The Dane who became King of England after

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Wessex, Southern England, 878. Fortunes are not on the side of the English and the Vikings will soon control all the lan

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Anglo-Danish Empire is an interdisciplinary handbook for the Danish conquest of England in 1016 and the subsequent reign

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Eleventh-century England suffered two devastating conquests, each bringing the rule of a foreign king and the imposition

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Drawing from Eastern and Western literatures, Heinrich Zimmer presents a selection of stories linked together by their c

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Whilst Richard I is one of medieval England’s most famous kings he is also the most controversial. He has variously been

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King Æthelred II (978-1016), known as 'the Unready', is a relatively unknown English monarch. The exploration

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A seminal biography of the underappreciated eleventh-century Scandinavian warlord-turned-Anglo-Saxon monarch who united

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Why did the Vikings sail to England? Were they indiscriminate raiders, motivated solely by bloodlust and plunder? One na

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