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 Hildebrandine Papacy and the Conqueror
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Abstract conception of Rome
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The Christian Church
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The Empire and the Church
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Fall of the Empire in the West
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Anselm and Henry I
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The anarchy of Stephen
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The Church and the Teutonic conquerors
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Judicial reforms
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Political arrangements
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Moral needs of the population
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England and the Crusades
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Elizabeth and Parliament
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The Christian missionaries in England 9 The monastic system 10 The penitential system
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Church organisation 12 The Church compared with the Empire 13 Church and State
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Union of the kingdoms under Egbert 15 The Danish wars
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The struggle of the West Saxon kings with the Danes 17 Growth of kingly authority 18 Growth of a military aristocracy
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The Eorls superseded by the Thegns 20 The change gradual
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The King and the Witenagemot
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Dunstans ecclesiastical policy 23 The secular laws of Edgar
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Ethelred and Edmund 25 Cnuts reign 26 Edward the Confessor
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The House of Godwin
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CHAPTER III
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New ideas in Italy and France 3 Norman adaptability 4 Norman organisation in England 5 The national kingship
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Institutions of the first Norman kings
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Richard I and Hubert Walter
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CHAPTER VI
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The three quarrels of the reign 4 The quarrel with the King of France 5 The quarrel with the Pope
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The Papacy of Innocent III
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The quarrel with the baronage
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Tentative efforts 11 Germ of the representative system 12 Accession of Henry III and the modified Charter 13 Extinction of Papal influence 14 The ...
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Simon de Montfort
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His scheme of a Representative Parliament 17 The early years of Edward I
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Arbitrary government 12 The resistance in Scotland CHAPTER VII
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Growing strength of the Commons 9 Chivalry
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The labourers
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Wyclifs principles
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Wyclifs failure 11 Piers the Ploughman 12 The Black Death and the Feasants Revolt 15 The Conservative reaction
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The Revolution of 1399
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Reign of Henry VII
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Causes of the rise of the Tudor Monarchy
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End of the Middle Ages
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The Italian Renaissance
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The Tudor Monarchy 14851603
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The separation from Rome 6 Growth of despotism
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The Protestants 8 Character of the age 9 The kings supremacy
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Edward VI
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Mary
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The religious difficulty at the accession of Elizabeth 13 The Elizabethan Compromise 14 The Elizabethan Commonwealth
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Cromwell and the Sects
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Supremacy of the army
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CHAPTER VIII
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Aims of the Protectorate 2 The Rights of Minorities
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Government by the army
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Government of the Restoration 5 The Divine Right of Kings 6 Character of the Restoration
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Prospects of Toleration 8 Antagonism to France and the Papacy 9 The Exclusion Bill
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The Revolution of 1688
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CHAPTER IX
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Cabinet Government 6 The House of Commons and the Nation 1 Supremacy of the House of Commons 2 Liberty of the Pulpit a id the Press 3 The s...
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Hogarth and Fielding
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Wesleyanism 3 William Pitt
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The decline of the Whig Aristocracy 5 The accession of George III
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The expulsion of Wilkes and American taxation 8 Comparison between Burke and Bacon
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The new Tories
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The American
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The Coalition Ministry 12 Pitts Ministry
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CHAPTER XI
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The effect in England 3 The last years of Pitts Ministry 4 The war with France
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The Foreign Policy of the Ministries after the
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INTRODUCTORY
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Picet
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450 to the Norman Conquest
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CHAPTER III
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CONTEMPORARY WRITERS The Chronicle and the History
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CHAPTER V
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CHAPTER VI
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CHAPTER VII
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of Lanfranc Anselm Beket and Hugh of Lincoln Sismondi Coxs
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Contemporary WRITERS Authorities already described Greens
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CHAPTER IX
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CONTEMPORARY WRITERS Calendar of State Papers by Mr Red
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CHAPTER XI
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