Medievalists.net » Cnut http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Sun, 06 Dec 2015 19:35:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 National-Ethnic Narratives in Eleventh-Century Literary Representations of Cnut http://www.medievalists.net/2015/11/16/national-ethnic-narratives-in-eleventh-century-literary-representations-of-cnut/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/11/16/national-ethnic-narratives-in-eleventh-century-literary-representations-of-cnut/#comments Mon, 16 Nov 2015 17:48:06 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=62566 This article takes literary representations of Cnut, the Danish conqueror of England, as a case study of the construction of English identity in the eleventh century.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/11/16/national-ethnic-narratives-in-eleventh-century-literary-representations-of-cnut/feed/ 0 The Changing Story of Cnut and the Waves http://www.medievalists.net/2015/05/24/the-changing-story-of-cnut-and-the-waves/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/05/24/the-changing-story-of-cnut-and-the-waves/#comments Sun, 24 May 2015 17:21:28 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=58404 There is famous story about King Cnut and the waves. However, most people know do not know the original version.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/05/24/the-changing-story-of-cnut-and-the-waves/feed/ 0 Cnut: England’s Danish King http://www.medievalists.net/2015/05/04/cnut-englands-danish-king/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/05/04/cnut-englands-danish-king/#comments Mon, 04 May 2015 22:44:16 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=58044 There is very little historic information on King Cnut even though he was the most powerful king in northern Europe in the early eleventh century.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/05/04/cnut-englands-danish-king/feed/ 0 King Edmund Ironside http://www.medievalists.net/2015/04/02/king-edmund-ironside/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/04/02/king-edmund-ironside/#comments Thu, 02 Apr 2015 15:19:02 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=57334 It was the early eleventh century and England was being overrun by Vikings

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/04/02/king-edmund-ironside/feed/ 0 Reconsidering Agatha, Wife of Eadward the Exile http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/11/reconsidering-agatha-wife-of-eadward-the-exile/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/11/reconsidering-agatha-wife-of-eadward-the-exile/#comments Sat, 11 Jan 2014 23:15:26 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=46576 The antecedents of Agatha, wife of Eadward the Exile and ancestress of Scottish and English monarchs since the twelfth century and their countless descendants in Europe and America, have been the subject of much dispute...

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/11/reconsidering-agatha-wife-of-eadward-the-exile/feed/ 0 Hosting the king: hospitality and the royal iter in tenth-century England http://www.medievalists.net/2013/07/31/hosting-the-king-hospitality-and-the-royal-iter-in-tenth-century-england-2/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/07/31/hosting-the-king-hospitality-and-the-royal-iter-in-tenth-century-england-2/#comments Wed, 31 Jul 2013 13:17:56 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=42486 Hosting the king: hospitality and the royal iter  in tenth-century England Levi Roach (Trinity College, Cambridge) The Journal of Medieval History, 37.1 (March 2011), 34-46 Abstract Traditional studies of royal itinerancy have depended on locating the king’s progress through his kingdom(s) as precisely as possible and it should therefore not surprise that the iter regis […]

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/07/31/hosting-the-king-hospitality-and-the-royal-iter-in-tenth-century-england-2/feed/ 0 The Danish attacks on London and Southwark in ‘1016’ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/01/28/the-danish-attacks-on-london-and-southwark-in-1016/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/01/28/the-danish-attacks-on-london-and-southwark-in-1016/#comments Mon, 28 Jan 2013 18:38:11 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=38971 This incident has been fatally embroidered by many local historians, taking their cue from various sources, so that the popular accounts have distorted what was already a confusing set of events.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/01/28/the-danish-attacks-on-london-and-southwark-in-1016/feed/ 0 Aethelred the Unready http://www.medievalists.net/2013/01/16/aethelred-the-unready/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/01/16/aethelred-the-unready/#comments Thu, 17 Jan 2013 04:16:57 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=38760 Calling Aethelred 'Unraed' could mean he was given bad counsel, he did not take advice from his counselors or that he himself was unwise. Perhaps all were true. Let’s look at the story and see.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/01/16/aethelred-the-unready/feed/ 0 Conquest or Colonisation: The Scandinavians in Ryedale from the Ninth to Eleventh Centuries http://www.medievalists.net/2012/11/25/conquest-or-colonisation-the-scandinavians-in-ryedale-from-the-ninth-to-eleventh-centuries/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/11/25/conquest-or-colonisation-the-scandinavians-in-ryedale-from-the-ninth-to-eleventh-centuries/#comments Sun, 25 Nov 2012 17:51:05 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=37455 The study of settlement history has developed within the fields of history, archaeology and geography. As a result much of the work carried out in settlement studies has borrowed the research and conclusions of scholars from other disciplines.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/11/25/conquest-or-colonisation-the-scandinavians-in-ryedale-from-the-ninth-to-eleventh-centuries/feed/ 0 Against the Heathen: Saints and martyrs in late Anglo-Saxon literature http://www.medievalists.net/2012/11/06/against-the-heathen-saints-and-martyrs-in-late-anglo-saxon-literature/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/11/06/against-the-heathen-saints-and-martyrs-in-late-anglo-saxon-literature/#comments Tue, 06 Nov 2012 18:12:43 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=36924 In this essay I will argue that the militarised martyrs and saints in Anglo-Saxon England are both a shining example to Saxon Christians and an enticing lure to encourage the Scandinavian settlers to adopt the Catholic faith like King Cnut did.

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