Canute
historical figure · 2 works · 6 mentions · 7 anchored passages
in the texts
Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John
Danish king of England whose centralizing policy reorganized provincial rule.
Canute’s consolidating policy has been the subject of much discussion, and has sometimes been misunderstood.
and one effect of the settlements of the Danes was to create a barrier between the lands that lay on either side of Watling Street, before the whole country succumbed to the unifying pressure of Canute and his sons.
that its substance was derived from Norman innovations rather than from the Confessor’s or Canute’s laws;
Lectures on the Early History of Institutions
English king whose laws are cited as a comparative example of early legislation.
It is impossible to determine how much new law there was in the Laws of Solon, or in the Twelve Tables of Rome, or in the Laws of Alfred and Canute, or in the Salic Law which is the oldest of the so-called Leges Barbarorum, but in all probability the quantity was extremely small.
These provisions have their close counterpart in the ordinance of Canute that no man is to take nams unless he has demanded right three times in the Hundred;