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

Contents\nAbbreviations\nList of Figures\nList of Maps\nList of Tables\nAcknowledgments\nPrologue “King of Danes, Irish, English and Island- Dwellers”: An Audience with Knútr inn Ríki\nPart I: Cnut’s Conquest\nChapter 1 London into the Age of Cnut: An Archaeological Perspective\nChapter 2 Coins of Æthelred II and Cnut the Great from London Excavations\nChapter 3 Early-Eleventh-Century Weapons from the Site of Old London Bridge: A Reassessment\nChapter 4 The Reign of King Æthelred the Unready in Multiple Maps\nChapter 5 The Æthelredian Fragment of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and the Personality of its Author\nChapter 6 Æthelred’s Death and the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle’s Tone\nChapter 7 King Edmund II Ironside and the Siege of London, 1016\nPart II: Cnut’s Kingdom\nChapter 8 Cnut, King of the English, 1017–1019\nChapter 9 “In London, Very Justly”: Cnut’s English Reputation and the Death of Eadric Streona\nChapter 10 Cnut’s Interaction with Winchester: A Reassessment\nChapter 11 Heroic Legend: Sigmundr Fáfnisbani in the Court of King Cnut\nChapter 12 An Icelander in Cnut’s Court: The Case of Sigvatr Þórðarson\nChapter 13 Behold the Front Page: Cnut and the Scyldings in Beowulf\nPart III: Cnut’s Empire\nMap: The empire of Cnut the Great (1016–1035).\nChapter 14 “Vuiberg Hic Coronatur Rex Dacie”: The Crowning of King Cnut in Viborg, 1019\nChapter 15 King Cnut of England and the Danish Homelands\nChapter 16 Cnut’s Ecclesiastical Policy in the Context of His English and Danish Predecessors\nChapter 17 Cnut’s Gift of a Swithun-relic to “Dacia”: A Gift to Denmark or Norway?\nChapter 18 Cnut, his Dynasty, and the Elbe-Slavs\nChapter 19 Cnut’s Reign in England and Denmark: The Western Slavonic Perspective\nChapter 20 St. Clement of Rome: Patron Saint of Cnut and the Dynasty of Denmark\nEpilogue Cnut and the Potential Uses and Abuses of the Late Narrative Sources from Northern Scandinavia\nNotes on Contributors\nGeneral Bibliography\nIndex