THE NORMANS IN ENGLAND

INTRODUCTION

NOTE TO THIS VOLUME

TABLE OF CONTENTS

THE NORMANS IN ENGLAND (1066–1154)

THE CHARACTER OF THE SAXONS AND NORMANS CONTRASTED.

THE HARRYING OF THE NORTH (1069).

THE RESISTANCE IN THE FENS (1070).

THE DEPRESSION OF THE ENGLISH (1070).

NORMAN MEASURES AFTER THE CONQUEST, AND THE FUSION OF THE RACES.

THE STATUTES OF WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR.

THE ORDEAL OF THE GLOWING IRON.

ORDINANCE OF WILLIAM I., SEPARATING THE SPIRITUAL AND TEMPORAL COURTS.

THE VINDICATION OF A SAXON SAINT (1072).

ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL TOUCHING THE DISPUTE BETWEEN CANTERBURY AND YORK AS TO THE PRIMACY (1072).

THE REVIVAL OF MONASTICISM (1074).

THE CONSPIRACY OF THE EARLS (1074).

THE CROWN AND THE PAPACY: THE CONQUEROR’S LETTER TO HILDEBRAND (c. 1080).

NORMAN ABBOTS AND SAXON MONKS (1083).

DOMESDAY BOOK (1085).

THE DOMESDAY COMMISSION (1085).

THE FORM OF THE DOMESDAY INQUEST (1085).

THE DOMESDAY DESCRIPTION OF SHREWSBURY.

THE SALISBURY OATH OF FEALTY (1086).

HOMAGE AND FEALTY.

THE ENDOWMENT OF BATTLE ABBEY (1087).

CHARACTER OF WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR AND OF HIS REIGN.

FORESTS AND THE ROYAL LOVE OF HUNTING.

THE TRAINING AND TEMPERAMENT OF WILLIAM RUFUS.

THE REBELLION OF BISHOP ODO (1088).

ROYAL PROCEDURE AGAINST A BISHOP.

THE ILLNESS OF WILLIAM RUFUS, AND THE APPOINTMENT OF ANSELM AS ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY (1093).

THE QUARREL OF WILLIAM RUFUS AND ANSELM (1093–94).

THE FIRST CRUSADE (1095).

THE PAWNING OF NORMANDY (1097).

THE JEWS UNDER WILLIAM RUFUS (1098).

THE DEATH OF WILLIAM RUFUS (1100).

THE CHARACTER OF THE REIGN OF WILLIAM RUFUS.

THE FOUNDATION OF THE CISTERCIAN ORDER BY STEPHEN HARDING.

FASHIONS AT THE COURTS OF WILLIAM RUFUS AND HENRY I.

THE CHARTER OF HENRY I. (1101).

HENRY I.’S APOLOGY TO ANSELM FOR BEING CROWNED IN THE LATTER’S ABSENCE (1100).

THE INVESTITURE CONTROVERSY (1100–1107).

OPPRESSIVE TAXATION UNDER HENRY I. (1105).

THE BATTLE OF TENCHEBRAI (1106).

CONSOLIDATION OF THE POWER OF HENRY I. (1107).

HENRY I.’S CHARTER OF LIBERTIES TO THE CITY OF LONDON.

SOCIAL EVILS AND DRASTIC PUNISHMENTS (1108).

THE SHIPWRECK OF WILLIAM, SON OF HENRY I. (1120).

A NORMAN PRELATE.

THE ORGANISATION OF THE EXCHEQUER.

THE DEVELOPMENT OF EXCHEQUER PROCEDURE IN RELATION TO ROYAL REVENUE.

THE OATH OF THE BARONS TO SUPPORT THE SUCCESSION OF MATILDA THE EMPRESS (1126).

THE DISPUTED ELECTION OF AN ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY (1123).

THE DEATH AND CHARACTER OF HENRY I.

THE ACCESSION OF STEPHEN (1135).

THE PERJURY OF THE BARONS (1135).

THE CORONATION OATH OF KING STEPHEN (1136).

FEUDAL ANARCHY UNDER STEPHEN.

WALES AND THE WELSH (1136).

THE BATTLE OF THE STANDARD (1138).

KING STEPHEN’S ATTACK ON THE BISHOPS (1139).

THE CHARACTER AND CAREER OF ROGER, BISHOP OF SALISBURY.

THE BATTLE OF LINCOLN (1141).

THE DEPOSITION OF KING STEPHEN (1141).

THE CAREER OF GEOFFREY DE MANDEVILLE (1143.)

THE TREATY OF PEACE BETWEEN KING STEPHEN AND PRINCE HENRY (1153).

THE NEW MOVEMENT IN HISTORY TEACHING

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