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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté. Image fixe : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Bartlett, W. B.
Titre(s) : King Cnut and the Viking conquest of England 1016 [Texte imprimé] / W. B. Bartlett
Publication : Stroud : Amberley, 2016
Description matérielle : 315 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
The Viking Conquest of England in 1016 - a far tougher and brutal campaign than the
Norman Conquest exactly half a century later - saw two great warriors, the Danish
prince Cnut and his equally ruthless English opponent King Edmund Ironside fight an
epic campaign. Cnut sailed in 200 longboats landing first in September 1015 on the
Wessex coast with 10,000 soldiers and the two forces fought each other to the point
of exhaustion for the next 14 months. It was a war of terrifying violence that scarred
much of England, from the Humber to Cornwall. It saw an epic siege of the great walls
of London and bruising set-piece battles at Penselwood, Otford, and the conclusive
Danish victory at Assandun on 18 October 1016. Edmund's death soon after finally resolved
a brutal, bloody conflict and ended with Cnut crowned king of England on Christmas
day that year. This book tells the extraordinary story of Cnut the Great's life
Sujet(s) : Knud Ier (0995?-1035 ; roi d'Angleterre)
Grande-Bretagne -- 979-1016 (Ethelred II)
Grande-Bretagne -- 1016-1035 (Knud)
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781445645872. - ISBN 1445645874
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45169735b
Notice n° :
FRBNF45169735
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)