By Timothy Bolton
ISBN-10: 900416670X
ISBN-13: 9789004166707
The reign of King Cnut the nice (1016 1035) marks a pivotal aspect within the historical past of either England and Scandinavia, but his conquests and his consolidation of energy stay under-appreciated and barely studied. just about all present scholarship has been geographically concentrated on both England or Scandinavia. even though, this research, via a sequence of reports of person elements of his upward thrust to strength in these areas, seeks to surround his complete dominion, and forged new mild on our realizing of the character of this political unit and modern figures conceptions of it. the result's a clean impact of a few facets of Cnut s upward thrust to strength in addition to a brand new interpretation of this empire ."
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T h e translation here follows Whitelock, English, no. 52a, pp. 4 3 1 - 2 . 16 CHAPTER ONE this name can be found in eleven of these. Furthermore, it appears from the consistent position of the name at the head of these lists that the majority of these attestations are of a single man. 15 The Thored who attests prominendy in other charters is probably the same man. In a grant from 1026 he attests third among fourteen ministn. In three grants from the 1030s he appears in positions indicating importance: in a grant from 1032 he is seventh among sixteen ministn, in another from 1033 he is fourth among fourteen, and in another from 1035 he attests third among nineteen.
953) Leofwine Odda Wulfmaer 1015 (S. 934) 1015 (S. 934) 1005 (S. 911) 1019 (S. 956) 1018 (S. 951) 1018 (S. 953) Wulfnoth 1005 (S. 911) 1024 (S. 961) Wulfric 1013 (S. 931b) 1022 (S. 958) Wulfsige 1009 (S. 922) 1019 (S. 954) Wulfweard 1014 (S. 933) 1018 (S. 953) Comments on likelihood of being same individual Plausible. Implausible: absence of 13 years. Implausible: absence of 12 years. Implausible: only in 1 of iEthelred's grants. Plausible. Plausible. Implausible: only in 1 of Cnut's grants. Implausible: absence of 19 years.
1004 (Abbotsbury). 95 S. 1021 (Exeter). 96 S. 1033 (Rouen) and S. 1034 (Bath). See Keynes, "Regenbald the Chancellor", 2 0 0 - 1 , for discussion of the first of these. 07 See Clarke, English Nobility, 2 6 0 - 2 , for an assessment of his vast estates, and Williams, "A West Country Magnate", for an account of his later career. 98 D B , i, 75v and 79. See also Williams, "A West Country Magnate", 48. 99 T h e main text of the chronicle was edited in Dugdale, Monasticon, 2: 5 9 - 6 5 . However, by the time that Dugdale c a m e to consult the original manuscript it was corrupt at the point at which the details of ^Elfgar's donations to the community are listed.
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