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History of England Part 1
by
Charles M Andrews
part of the
English History Series
Table of Contents
THE ANGLO-SAXON CONQUEST
The Position of the British Isles
Celts and Romans in Britain
The Roman Empire and the Teutonic Tribes in the Fifth Century
Anglo-Saxons and Jutes
Their Migration to Britain
Conquest of the Interior
Tribal Settlements
Early Organization of the Tribes
Introduction of Christianity by Roman Missionaries in Kent
In Northumbria and Wessex
The Celtic Church and its Missionaries: in Iona, Northumbria, and Mercia
Conflict between Roman and Celtic Christianity
The Synod of Whitby
Organization of the Church Theodore of Tarsus
Influence of the Church in England
Supremacy of Mercia under Offa; and of Wessex under Ecgbert
THE DANES AND THE RISE OF WESSEX
The Coming of the Danes
The Danish Army
The Resistance of Wessex
Alfred the Great and the Danes
Alfred and Guthrum
Effects of the Danish Conquest
Alfred
Expansion of Wessex
Eadgar
Dunstan
ANGLO-SAXON INSTITUTIONS
Anglo-Saxon methods of life and government
The King
The Witan
The Shire and the Shiremot
The Hundred and the Hundredmot
The Vill
The Burgh
The Land System: Folkland
Bookland
Loanland
General Aspects of Anglo-Saxon Life
FROM THE DANISH TO THE NORMAN CONQUEST
Ethelred and the Danes
Cnut
The Great Earldoms
CnutGoverment and Law
Cnut Foreign Relations and Attitude toward the Church
Danish Influence in England
The Successors of Cnut
Eadward the Confessor
Harold
England in 1066
THE NORMAN CONQUEST
William the Conqueror
Battle of Stamford Bridge
Battle of Hastings
Completion of the Conquest
Introduction of the Feudal Land System
William
Local Administration
Sources of Revenue
Domesday Book
William and the Church
General Character of the Norman Conquest
William II
Henry I
Henry and Normandy
The Investiture Struggle
Administration under Henry
Stephen
Civil War between Stephen and Matilda : First Period
Second Period of the Struggle
Treaty of Wallingford
Results of Stephen
HENRY II AND HIS SONS
Henry II restores Peace
Henry Administration
Scutage
Henry Quarrel with the Church: Thomas a Becket
The Constitutions of Clarendon
Becket Exile and Death
Feudal Reaction against Henry
Henry Justice Army Finances
Henry and Ireland
Henry Last Years
Richard, Coeur de Lion (1189-1199)
Richard Ransom
Richard, John, and Philip Augustus
John and the Loss of the French Lands
John and the Church
John Attempt to Recover his French Lands
John and the Barons
Magna Carta
Attempt to revoke the Charter
