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History of the English People, Volume I Early England, 449-1071; Foreign Kings, 1071-1204; The Charter, 1204-1216 By: John Richard Green (1837-1883) |
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by JOHN RICHARD GREEN, M.A.
Honorary Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford EARLY ENGLAND, 449 1071
FOREIGN KINGS, 1071 1204
THE CHARTER, 1204 1216 First Edition, Demy 8vo, November 1877;
Reprinted December 1877, 1881, 1885, 1890.
Eversley Edition, 1895.
London MacMillan and Co. and New York 1895
I Dedicate this Book TO TWO DEAR FRIENDS
MY MASTERS IN THE STUDY OF ENGLISH HISTORY EDWARD AUGUSTUS FREEMAN
AND
WILLIAM STUBBS
CONTENTS Volume I Book I Early England 449 1071 Authorities for Book I Chapter I The English Conquest of Britain 449 577 Chapter II The English Kingdoms 577 796 Chapter III Wessex and the Northmen 796 947 Chapter IV Feudalism and the Monarchy 954 1071 Book II England under Foreign Kings 1071 1204 Authorities for Book II Chapter I The Conqueror 1071 1085 Chapter II The Norman Kings 1085 1154 Chapter III Henry the Second 1154 1189 Chapter IV The Angevin Kings 1189 1204 Book III The Charter 1204 1307 Authorities for Book III Chapter I John 1204 1216 LIST OF MAPS
Britain and the English Conquest (v1 map 1.png) The English Kingdoms in A.D. 600 (v1 map 2.jpg) England and the Danelaw (v1 map 3.jpg) The Dominions of the Angevins (v1 map 4.jpg) Ireland just before the English Invasion (v1 map 5.jpg)
VOLUME I
BOOK I
EARLY ENGLAND
449 1071
AUTHORITIES FOR BOOK I
449 1071
For the conquest of Britain by the English our authorities are scant and
imperfect. The only extant British account is the "Epistola" of Gildas, a
work written probably about A.D. 560. The style of Gildas is diffuse and
inflated, but his book is of great value in the light it throws on the
state of the island at that time, and above all as the one record of the
conquest which we have from the side of the conquered. The English
conquerors, on the other hand, have left jottings of their conquest of
Kent, Sussex, and Wessex in the curious annals which form the opening of
the compilation now known as the "English" or "Anglo Saxon Chronicle,"
annals which are undoubtedly historic, though with a slight mythical
intermixture. For the history of the English conquest of mid Britain or
the Eastern Coast we possess no written materials from either side; and a
fragment of the Annals of Northumbria embodied in the later compilation
("Historia Britonum") which bears the name of Nennius alone throws light
on the conquest of the North. From these inadequate materials however Dr. Guest has succeeded by a
wonderful combination of historical and archæological knowledge in
constructing a narrative of the conquest of Southern and South Western
Britain which must serve as the starting point for all future enquirers. This narrative, so far as it goes, has served as the basis of the account
given in my text; and I can only trust that it may soon be embodied in
some more accessible form than that of a series of papers in the
Transactions of the Archæological Institute. In a like way, though
Kemble's "Saxons in England" and Sir F. Palgrave's "History of the
English Commonwealth" (if read with caution) contain much that is worth
notice, our knowledge of the primitive constitution of the English people
and the changes introduced into it since their settlement in Britain must
be mainly drawn from the "Constitutional History" of Professor Stubbs. Bæda's "Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum," a work of which I have
spoken in my text, is the primary authority for the history of the
Northumbrian overlordship which followed the Conquest. It is by copious
insertions from Bæda that the meagre regnal and episcopal annals of the
West Saxons have been brought to the shape in which they at present
appear in the part of the English Chronicle which concerns this period.
The life of Wilfrid by Eddi, with those of Cuthbert by an anonymous
contemporary and by Bæda himself, throws great light on the religious and
intellectual condition of the North at the time of its supremacy... Continue reading book >>
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