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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Hudson, Benjamin T. Viking pirates and Christian princes. New York : Oxford University Press, c2005 (OCoLC)644114701 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Benjamin T Hudson |
| ISBN: | 0195162374 9780195162370 |
| OCLC Number: | 55286670 |
| Description: | xiv, 278 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Two rivers and the origins of Olaf Cuaran -- Battle, marriage, and empire -- Pirate kings of the islands -- Sitric Silkenbeard -- From Dublin to England and Norway -- The brief ascendancey of the Haraldssons -- The contest for supremacy in the Irish Sea -- Lords of the isles. |
| Responsibility: | Benjamin Hudson. |
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[Hudson's] reassessment of Sitric Silkenbeard's achievement is particularly convincing and will need to be taken into account by all future students of King Cnut's confederation...This work offers new, well-signposted, approaches to the study of what Patrick Wormald termed 'the British archipelago'. Jonathan Shepard, Journal of Ecclesiastical History Read more...
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