Empire of Cnut the Great

Timothy Bolton, Ph.D. (2005) in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, is the Specialist in Western Medieval Manuscripts at Sotheby's. He has published a number of studies in journals such as Medieval Scandinavia and Nottingham Medieval Studies on various aspects of Anglo-Scandinavian rule in England and Scandinavia.

• Preface and AcknowledgementsAbbreviationsList of FiguresGeneral IntroductionPart One The NAture of Cnut's Hegemonies in England1. Introduction2. National Government in Cnut's Reign: The Roayl Court3. The Government in the Localities of Southumbrian England in teh Reign of Cnut4. Cnut and the English Church5. Cnut and the Imperium of late Anglo-Saxon England: Northumbria, Wales, Scotland and IrelandPart Two The Nature of Cnut's Hegemonies in Scandinavia6. Introduction7. Cnut and the development of the 'MAchinery of Control' in Western and Central Denmark8. Cnut, Eastern Denmakr and the Baltic: The Struggle for Supremacy9. Danish Supremacy in Scandinavian in the Early Eleventh Century: Cnut and the Regmies of Norway and Sweden10.The Conquest of Norway and the Development of Imperial AspirationsConclusionsAppendix AAppendix BBibliographyIndex