Introduction to the Study of English History

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K. Paul, Trench, Trübner, & Company, Limited, 1894 - 468 pàgines
 

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The Christian Church II
11
The Empire and the Church
12
Fall of the Empire in the West
13
CHAPTER II
15
The English settlements
16
Institutions of the settlers
17
The Church and the Teutonic conquerors
18
The King and the Witan
19
Administration of justice
20
Moral needs of the population
21
The Christian missionaries in England
22
The monastic system
23
The penitential 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The Eorls superseded by the Thegns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
New ideas in Italy and France
42
Norman organisation in England
43
The national kingship
44
Institutions of the first Norman kings
46
Parliamentary Organisation 11991327
62
The three quarrels of the reign 4 The quarrel with the King of France
63
The quarrel with the Pope
64
The Papacy of Innocent III
65
The quarrel with the baronage 8 Magna Carta
66
Germ of the representative system 12 Accession of Henry III and the modified Charter 13 Extinction of Papal influence 14 The Friars
72
Simon de Montfort
73
His scheme of a Representative Parliament 17 The early years of Edward I
75
The national and the feudal kingship
76
Edward I and Wales
77
Edward I and Scotland 21 Edward I and France
78
The dispute with the Clergy and the Baronage 23 Confirmatio Cartarum
80
Reign of Edward II
81
National unity
85
The connexion between England and Flanders 5 The beginning of the Hundred Years War 6 The Constitution of the House of Commons 7 Unity of ...
89
Growing strength of the Commons 9 Chivalry
90
The labourers
91
Piers the Ploughman
92
The Black Death and the Feasants Revolt 13 Wyclifs principles
94
Wyclifs failure 15 The Conservative reaction
96
The Revolution of 1399
97
Gradual Emancipation of the Serfs 18 The decay of the baronage
98
CHAPTER VI
101
The Star Chamber
102
End of the Middle Ages
103

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Pàgina 220 - AUTHORITY OF HER MAJESTY'S TREASURY, UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE MASTER OF THE ROLLS. ON the 26th of January 1857, the Master of the Rolls submitted to the Treasury a proposal for the publication of materials for the History of this Country from the Invasion of the Romans to the Reign of Henry VIII.
Pàgina 238 - 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 357 - LIVES OF THE LAST FOUR PRINCESSES OF THE ROYAL HOUSE OF STUART. Forming an appropriate Sequel to the ' Lives of the Queens of England.
Pàgina 208 - It is one of the facts,' says Sir Henry Maine, ' with which the Western world will some day assuredly have to reckon, that the political ideas of so large a portion of the human race, and its ideas of property also, are inextricably bound up with the notions of family interdependency, of collective ownership, and of natural subjection to patriarchal power.
Pàgina 279 - II. ; he appears to have 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 82 - 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 380 - 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 ; the relations of the mother country to its dependencies, and...
Pàgina 221 - Durham, and in accordance with his pursuits and plans ; having for its object the publication of inedited Manuscripts, illustrative of the intellectual, the moral, the religious, and the social condition of those parts of England and Scotland included on the east between the Humber and the Frith of Forth, and on the west between the Mersey and the Clyde, a region which constituted the ancient Kingdom of Northumbria.
Pàgina 10 - ... exaudi, regina tui pulcherrima mundi, inter sidereos Roma recepta polos, exaudi, genetrix hominum genetrixque deorum, non procul a caelo per tua templa sumus : 50 te canimus semperque, sinent dum fata, canemus : sospes nemo potest immemor esse tui.
Pàgina 389 - MEMOIRS OF THE REIGN OF KING GEORGE THE THIRD, BY HORACE WALPOLE. NOW FIRST PUBLISHED FROM THE ORIGINAL MSS. EDITED, WITH NOTES, BY SIR DENIS LE MARCHANT.

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