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Season 8 Episode 348
Europe was in chaos in the 1020s. Crises just kept coming, and the powerful were trying to capitalize on disorder. And in times like these, actions c…
6 years, 4 months ago
Aggressive Diplomacy
Season 8 Episode 347
What we call history was, at one point, just current events. And world affairs never happen in a vacuum. It’s never just one thing happening after an…
6 years, 4 months ago
Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Drakkars
Season 8 Episode 346
It’s 1025 Cnut had a problem on his hands. Barely a year after putting down Thorkell’s rebellion, Cnut was sailing for Denmark… again. To war, again.…
6 years, 5 months ago
Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Drakkars
Season 8 Episode 346
It’s 1025 Cnut had a problem on his hands. Barely a year after putting down Thorkell’s rebellion, Cnut was sailing for Denmark… again. To war, again.…
6 years, 5 months ago
Building Blocks
Season 8 Episode 345
In the early 11th century, the English were crushed by the Scots in the Battle of Carham. We are told that King Malcolm of Scotland, supported by Kin…
6 years, 5 months ago
Cnut's Mad Lads
Season 8 Episode 344
In the year of 1021, the Anglo Saxon Chronicle tells us two things. A Bishop died. And Thorkell the Tall was expelled from the country. And that’s al…
6 years, 6 months ago
King Cnut of Denmark and England
Season 8 Episode 342
If you have heard of King Cnut, what you probably heard was the story of Cnut and the Tides. The most common version of it goes like this. “Canute, t…
6 years, 7 months ago
King Cnut of England
Season 8 Episode 341
Cnut made a lot of smart moves in a very short amount of time. He outlawed much of the corruption that had plagued the courts of AEthelred. He scrubb…
6 years, 7 months ago
A Bit of a Cnut
Season 8 Episode 340
When we left off, Cnut had managed to get Eadric to go on the record calling for the execution of the English claimants to the throne… and then Cnut …
6 years, 8 months ago
Cnut the Conqueror
Season 8 Episode 339
It’s been a strange few years. The fall of the House of Wessex and the rise of Cnut looks like a simple story of conquest. After all, it’s right ther…
6 years, 8 months ago