Cnut the Great

Bolton Timothy

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.

About the Author

Timothy Bolton is the author of "The Empire of Canute the Great: Conquest and the Consolidation of Power in Northern Europe in the Early Eleventh Century". He is an honorary fellow of both Cardiff and Aberdeen Universities, and lives in Stockholm, Sweden.

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