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The Making of England To 1399, Volume 1

by: Hollister, C.; Stacey, Robert C.; Stacey, Robin Chapman

The Making of England To 1399, Volume 1

by: Hollister, C.; Stacey, Robert C.; Stacey, Robin Chapman

ISBN 13:
9780618001019
ISBN 10:
0618001018
Edition: 8th
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 11/30/2000
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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This text, which is the first volume in the best-selling History of England series, tells how a small and insignificant outpost of the Roman empire evolved into a nation that has produced and disseminated so many significant ideas and institutions. The Eighth Edition incorporates more women's history, while continuing to provide balanced political and economic coverage with social and cultural history woven throughout.

PART ONE The Birth of the Realm: To 1066

(124)

Celtic and Roman Britain

(36)

Britain Before the Romans

(6)

The Roman Invasions of Britain

(3)

The Conquest of the North

(2)

The Romanization of Southern Britain

(3)

Agricultural Prosperity in the Third and Fourth Centuries

(2)

The Fracturing of the Western Roman Empire

(5)

The End of Roman Britain

(3)

Britain in the Fifth and Sixth Centuries

(6)

The Anglo-Saxon Conquest

(6)

Conversion and Unification: Anglo-Saxon England to the Death of King Alfred (899)

(45)

The ``Celtic Church''

(3)

The Roman Church and Continental Monasticism

(2)

The Mission to England

(2)

The Conversion of Northumbria

(4)

The Synod of Whitby (664) and the Origins of ``Englishness''

(2)

Theodore and the Restructuring of the Anglo-Saxon Church

(1)

Renaissance and Renewal

(4)

Vernacular Literature

(2)

Missions to the Continent

(2)

Kingship and Power in Early Anglo-Saxon England

(4)

Toward Political Consolidation: Mercia

(5)

Toward Political Consolidation: Wessex

(1)

The Viking Age and the Birth of the English Monarchy

(4)

Alfred the Great

(10)

Late-Anglo-Saxon England

(41)

The Consequences of Political Unification

(1)

The Monastic Reform Movement

(4)

The Administrative Strength of the Late-Anglo-Saxon State

(5)

Law and Justice

(2)

Finance, Coinage, Towns, and Taxation

(4)

Changes on the Land

101

(3)

Social Mobility

104

(1)

Late-Anglo-Saxon Art

105

(3)

The Reign of Ethelred ``the Unready'' (978-1016) and the New Invasions

108

(4)

The Reign of Cnut (1016-1035)

112

(3)

The Reign of Edward the Confessor (1042-1066)

115

(3)

The Reign of Harold II and the Norman Conquest (1066)

118

(7)

PART TWO The Growth of the Realm: 1066 to 1216

125

(132)

The Impact of the Norman Conquest

127

(27)

The Conquest Consolidated

128

(8)

The Norman Church

136

(3)

The Problem of Feudalism

139

(7)

The Administrative Contributions of William the Conqueror

146

(3)

The Impact of the Norman Conquest upon English Society and the English Economy

149

(2)

The End of the Reign

151

(3)

Norman England: William II, Henry I, and Stephen

154

(25)

The Reign of William Rufus (1087-1100)

154

(5)

The Reign of Henry I (1100-1135)

159

(13)

The Reign of King Stephen (1135-1154)

172

(7)

``The Devil's Brood'': Henry II, Richard, and John

179

(34)

Military and Financial Reforms Under Henry II

181

(2)

Henry II and the Common Law

183

(5)

Henry II and the Church

188

(5)

The Angevin Empire

193

(4)

Richard the Lion-Hearted (1189-1199)

197

(1)

The Reign of Richard I

198

(3)

King John (1199-1216): An Evaluation

201

(3)

The Collapse of the Angevin Empire

204

(2)

The Struggle with the Papacy

206

(3)

Magna Carta (1215)

209

(4)

Society, Economy, and Culture in High-Medieval England

213

(44)

Towns and Commerce in High-Medieval England

218

(3)

Twelfth-Century London

221

(4)

The Jews of Angevin England

225

(1)

The Landholding Aristocracy

226

(4)

Women

230

(4)

Medieval Children

234

(2)

The Agrarian Economy of High-Medieval England and the Emergence of Common-Law Villeinage

236

(3)

Peasant Life in an English Village

239

(4)

High-Medieval Christianity

243

(2)

The New Orders

245

(3)

Intellectual Life

248

(4)

Art and Literature

252

(5)

PART THREE The Community and the Realm: 1216 to 1307

257

(44)

The Troubled Reign of King Henry III (1216-1272): Monarchy, Community, and Parliament

259

(27)

The Government of England during the Minority

261

(6)

The Personal Rule of King Henry III (1236-1258)

267

(3)

The Problems of Crown Finance (1236-1258)

270

(2)

The King and the Jews

272

(2)

The Period of Baronial Reform and Rebellion (1258-1267)

274

(5)

The Emergence of Parliament

279

(7)

The Reign of Edward I

286

(15)

Law and Administration

287

(7)

The Wars of Edward I

294

(7)

PART FOUR The Realm in Transition: 1307 to 1399

301

(60)

The Bloom Fades: England in the Age of Edward II

303

(18)

Economic and Social Change in Fourteenth Century England

303

(7)

The Reign of Edward II (1307-1327)

310

(11)

Edward III and the Hundred Years' War

321

(14)

The Reign of Edward III (1327-1377)

322

(5)

Parliament in the Fourteenth Century

327

(4)

Law and Administration

331

(2)

Edward III and the Decline of Royal Authority

333

(2)

Death, Disorder, and Creative Flowering

335

(26)

The Black Death

336

(4)

Political Conflict

340

(1)

Religious Ferment

341

(1)

The Flowering of English Literature

342

(2)

Political Anticlericalism

344

(1)

John Wycliffe

345

(2)

The Great Revolt of 1381

347

(5)

The Reign of Richard II (1377-1399)

352

(6)

Conclusion

358

(3)

Appendix

361

(2)

Bibliography

363

(26)

Index

389

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