English History for Students: Being the Introduction to the Study of English History

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Holt, 1881 - 424 pàgines
 

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The Empire and the Roman
11
Abstract conception of Rome
12
The individual sacrificed to the society
13
The Christian Church
14
Organisation of the Church
15
The Empire and the Church
16
Fall of the Empire in the West
17
The Church and the Teutonic conquerors FAGE
18
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Administration of justice
20
Moral needs of the population
21
The Christian missionaries in England
22
Elizabeth and Parliament
23
The monastic system
24
Church organisation
25
The Church compared with the Empire
27
Union of the kingdoms under Egbert
28
The Danish wars
29
Growth of kingly authority
30
Growth of a military aristocracy
31
The Eorls superseded by the Thegns
32
The change gradual
34
The King and the Witenagemot
35
Dunstans ecclesiastical policy
36
The secular laws of Edgar
37
Cnuts reign
38
The House of Godwin
39
CHAPTER III
41
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42
Norman organisation in England
43
The national kingship
44
Institutions of the first Norman kings
46
The Hildebrandine Papacy and the Conqueror
48
The spiritual and the temp ral powers
49
The Church under William Rufus
50
Anselm and Monasticism
51
Anselm and William Rufus
52
Principles involved in the quarrel
53
The anarchy of Stephen
54
The first Acts of Henry II
55
Military reforms
57
Political arrangements
58
The quarrel with Becket
59
England and the Crusades
61
CHAPTER VI
62
The three quarrels of the reign
63
The quarrel with the Pope
64
The Papacy of Innocent III
65
The quarrel with the baronage
66
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Tentative efforts t 8
70
The Friars
72
Simon de Montfort
73
The early years of Edward I
75
The national and the feudal kingship
76
Edward I and Wales
77
Edward I and France
78
The dispute with the Clergy and the Baronage
79
Confirmatio Cartarum
80
Reign of Edward II
81
CHAPTER V
83
Decline of the Papacy
84
National unity
85
The connexion between England and Flanders
86
The Conservative reaction
96
The Revolution of 1399
97
The decay of the baronage
98
Causes of the rise of the Tudor Monarchy
99
CHAPTER VI
101
The Star Chamber
102
End of the Middle Ages
103
The Italian Renaissance
104
The separation from Rome
106
The Protestants
109
The kings supremacy
110
Edward VI III
111
Mary
112
The religious difficulty at the accession of Elizabeth
113
The Elizabethan Compromise
115
Elizabeth on her defence against the Catholics
116
The Jesuit Propaganda
118
Persecution of the Catholics
120
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Necessity of liberty 2 The first years of James I
130
The Spanish Alliance 4 Domestic Government
132
Buckingham and Prince Charles 6 War policy of Charles I
134
The House of Commons and the Church 8 The King without Parliament 9 The Puritan Opposition
137
The Constitutional Opposition
140
The beginning of the Long Parliament
142
Breach between King and Parliament 15 The Kings supporters
143
The supporters of the Parliament
146
The Civil
147
Cromwell and the Sects
148
Supremacy of the army
149
CHAPTER VIII
150
Aims of the Protectorate 2 The Rights of Minorities 16531688
151
Government by the army
152
Government of the Restoration 5 The Divine Right of Kings 6 Character of the Restoration
154
Prospects of Toleration
155
Antagonism to France and the Papacy 9 The Exclusion Bill
158
Reign of James II
160
Immediate results of the predominance of the House of Commons
166
Hogarth and Fielding
173
The decline of the Whig Aristocracy
181
AUTHORITIES
203
Picet
231
Ilistoria the de Situ Britanniae spuriousness of the work
232
CHAPTER II
245
CHAPTER III
258
From the Accession of King John to the Death of Edward II
270
CHAPTER V
284
CONTEMPORARY WRITERS Adam of Murimuth continued Robert
292
CHAPTER VI
302
CHAPTER VII
331
Lords Verney Papers Whitelocks Memoriais Thurloe Papers
348
CONTEMPORARY WRITERS Authorities already described Greens
358
CHAPTER IX
371
CONTEMPORARY WRITERS Calendar of State Papers by Mr Red
384
The Coalition Ministry
388
CHAPTER XI
396
INDEX
405
New ideas in France
407
The Cluniac Reforms 47
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Pàgina 236 - In this edition, the text of each manuscript is printed in columns on the same page, so that the student may see at a glance the various changes which occur in orthography, whether arising from locality or age. 24.
Pàgina 220 - Elizabethan historian), the object of the latter being ' to perpetuate and render accessible whatever is valuable, but at present little known, amongst the materials for the civil, ecclesiastical or literary history of the United Kingdom.
Pàgina 220 - THE PARKER SOCIETY" was instituted in 1840. In carrying out its object, it aims first at. the reprinting, without abridgement alteration or omission, of the best Works of the Fathers and early Writers of the Reformed English Church, published in the period between the accession of King Edward VI.
Pàgina 277 - WALSINGHAM,S who was precentor of the Thomas abbey in the reign of Richard II. ; he appears to have J^]smg~ been the inspiring genius of its scriptorium, and was also the compiler of a History of the foundation. The part of the Historia Anglicana attributed to his pen which relates to the present period, is however almost entirely a compilation from preceding writers already named. In the year 1618 there appeared the History of England from the Conquest to the reign of Edward III., by SAMUEL...
Pàgina 378 - His treatment accordingly embraces (to quote his own description) ' the growth or decline of the monarchy, the aristocracy, and the democracy, of the Church and of Dissent, of the agricultural, the manufacturing, and the commercial interests ; the increasing power of Parliament and of the press ; the history of political ideas, of art, of manners, and of belief; the changes that have taken place in the social and economical condition of the people ; the influences that have modified national character...
Pàgina 80 - But the matters which are to be established for the Estate of our Lord the King and of his Heirs, and for the estate of the Realm and of the People, shall be treated, accorded, and established in Parliament by our Lord the King and by the Assent of the Prelates, Earls, and Barons and the commonalty of the Realm, according as it hath been heretofore accustomed.
Pàgina 390 - Hon. B. Disraeli, MP : a Literary and Political Biography," and "Thirty Years of Foreign Policy : a History of the Secretaryships of the Earl of Aberdeen and Viscount Palmerston.
Pàgina 220 - Of these, the first had for its main object 'the reprinting, without abridgment, alteration, and omission, of the best works of the Fathers and early Writers of the Reformed English Church, published in the period between the accession of king Edward VI. and the death of queen Elizabeth ' ; the labours of the second were to be bestowed on the collection and printing of our ancient ballads ; those of the third, on the publication of literature illustrative of the works of our great dramatist.
Pàgina 362 - BAXTER'S Autobiography? a record from his birth, in 1615, to the year 1685, is of value from the numerous particulars it preserves respecting the Independents and ejected ministers, and also from the light it throws on the moral and social condition of the masses. The work was subsequently abridged by EDMUND...
Pàgina 309 - The state often consists rather in the evidence which it affords c"%£j™* with respect to contemporary impressions and beliefs, ofthesame. than in the light which it throws on the genuine connexion of events and the true springs of state policy. 1 The Life of Sir Thomas More, by his son-in-law, William Roper, Esq.

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