| PART ONE The Birth of the Realm: To 1066 |
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3 | (36) |
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Britain Before the Romans |
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3 | (6) |
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The Roman Invasions of Britain |
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9 | (3) |
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The Conquest of the North |
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12 | (2) |
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The Romanization of Southern Britain |
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14 | (3) |
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Agricultural Prosperity in the Third and Fourth Centuries |
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17 | (2) |
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The Fracturing of the Western Roman Empire |
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19 | (5) |
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24 | (3) |
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Britain in the Fifth and Sixth Centuries |
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27 | (6) |
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33 | (6) |
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Conversion and Unification: Anglo-Saxon England to the Death of King Alfred (899) |
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39 | (45) |
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39 | (3) |
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The Roman Church and Continental Monasticism |
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42 | (2) |
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44 | (2) |
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The Conversion of Northumbria |
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46 | (4) |
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The Synod of Whitby (664) and the Origins of ``Englishness'' |
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50 | (2) |
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Theodore and the Restructuring of the Anglo-Saxon Church |
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52 | (1) |
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53 | (4) |
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57 | (2) |
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Missions to the Continent |
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59 | (2) |
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Kingship and Power in Early Anglo-Saxon England |
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61 | (4) |
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Toward Political Consolidation: Mercia |
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65 | (5) |
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Toward Political Consolidation: Wessex |
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70 | (1) |
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The Viking Age and the Birth of the English Monarchy |
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70 | (4) |
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74 | (10) |
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84 | (41) |
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The Consequences of Political Unification |
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85 | (1) |
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The Monastic Reform Movement |
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86 | (4) |
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The Administrative Strength of the Late-Anglo-Saxon State |
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90 | (5) |
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95 | (2) |
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Finance, Coinage, Towns, and Taxation |
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97 | (4) |
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101 | (3) |
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104 | (1) |
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105 | (3) |
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The Reign of Ethelred ``the Unready'' (978-1016) and the New Invasions |
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108 | (4) |
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The Reign of Cnut (1016-1035) |
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112 | (3) |
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The Reign of Edward the Confessor (1042-1066) |
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115 | (3) |
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The Reign of Harold II and the Norman Conquest (1066) |
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118 | (7) |
| PART TWO The Growth of the Realm: 1066 to 1216 |
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125 | (132) |
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The Impact of the Norman Conquest |
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127 | (27) |
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The Conquest Consolidated |
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128 | (8) |
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136 | (3) |
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139 | (7) |
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The Administrative Contributions of William the Conqueror |
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146 | (3) |
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The Impact of the Norman Conquest upon English Society and the English Economy |
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149 | (2) |
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151 | (3) |
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Norman England: William II, Henry I, and Stephen |
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154 | (25) |
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The Reign of William Rufus (1087-1100) |
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154 | (5) |
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The Reign of Henry I (1100-1135) |
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159 | (13) |
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The Reign of King Stephen (1135-1154) |
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172 | (7) |
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``The Devil's Brood'': Henry II, Richard, and John |
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179 | (34) |
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Military and Financial Reforms Under Henry II |
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181 | (2) |
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Henry II and the Common Law |
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183 | (5) |
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188 | (5) |
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193 | (4) |
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Richard the Lion-Hearted (1189-1199) |
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197 | (1) |
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198 | (3) |
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King John (1199-1216): An Evaluation |
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201 | (3) |
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The Collapse of the Angevin Empire |
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204 | (2) |
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The Struggle with the Papacy |
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206 | (3) |
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209 | (4) |
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Society, Economy, and Culture in High-Medieval England |
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213 | (44) |
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Towns and Commerce in High-Medieval England |
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218 | (3) |
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221 | (4) |
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The Jews of Angevin England |
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225 | (1) |
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The Landholding Aristocracy |
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226 | (4) |
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230 | (4) |
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234 | (2) |
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The Agrarian Economy of High-Medieval England and the Emergence of Common-Law Villeinage |
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236 | (3) |
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Peasant Life in an English Village |
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239 | (4) |
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High-Medieval Christianity |
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243 | (2) |
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245 | (3) |
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248 | (4) |
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252 | (5) |
| PART THREE The Community and the Realm: 1216 to 1307 |
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257 | (44) |
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The Troubled Reign of King Henry III (1216-1272): Monarchy, Community, and Parliament |
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259 | (27) |
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The Government of England during the Minority |
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261 | (6) |
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The Personal Rule of King Henry III (1236-1258) |
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267 | (3) |
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The Problems of Crown Finance (1236-1258) |
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270 | (2) |
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272 | (2) |
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The Period of Baronial Reform and Rebellion (1258-1267) |
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274 | (5) |
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The Emergence of Parliament |
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279 | (7) |
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286 | (15) |
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287 | (7) |
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294 | (7) |
| PART FOUR The Realm in Transition: 1307 to 1399 |
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301 | (60) |
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The Bloom Fades: England in the Age of Edward II |
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303 | (18) |
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Economic and Social Change in Fourteenth Century England |
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303 | (7) |
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The Reign of Edward II (1307-1327) |
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310 | (11) |
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Edward III and the Hundred Years' War |
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321 | (14) |
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The Reign of Edward III (1327-1377) |
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322 | (5) |
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Parliament in the Fourteenth Century |
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327 | (4) |
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331 | (2) |
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Edward III and the Decline of Royal Authority |
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333 | (2) |
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Death, Disorder, and Creative Flowering |
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335 | (26) |
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336 | (4) |
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340 | (1) |
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341 | (1) |
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The Flowering of English Literature |
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342 | (2) |
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Political Anticlericalism |
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344 | (1) |
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345 | (2) |
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347 | (5) |
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The Reign of Richard II (1377-1399) |
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352 | (6) |
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358 | (3) |
| Appendix |
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361 | (2) |
| Bibliography |
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363 | (26) |
| Index |
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