King Cnut and the Viking Conquest of England 1016 9781445645872

Anglo-Danish Empire: A Companion to the Reign of King Cnut the Great 9781501513336, 9781501519819

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

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The King and the Corpse : Tales of the Soul’s Conquest of Evil

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

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Conquests in Eleventh-Century England: 1016, 1066 1783274166, 9781783274161

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

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The Viking Great Army and the Making of England 9780500776353, 9780500022016, 0500776350

The Viking Great Army that swept through England between AD 865 and 878 altered the course of British history. Since the

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Richard the Lionheart: The Crusader King of England 9781445662701

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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Cnut the Great 9780300226256

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

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Dragon Lords: The History and Legends of Viking England 9781350986121, 9781838608415

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

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Æthelstan: The First King of England 0300125356, 9780300125351

The powerful and innovative King Æthelstan reigned only briefly (924-939), yet his achievements during those eventful fi

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The Diplomas of King Æthelred 'The Unready' 978-1016: A Study in their Use as Historical Evidence 0521227186, 9780521227186

The reign of Æthelred 'the Unready' (978-1016) is known to us mainly from a series of annals in the Anglo-Saxo

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History Of The Conquest Of England By The Normans Vol 1

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