The English Nation: The Great Myth

by Jones, Edwin; Davies, Norman

• ISBN13: 9780750925198
• ISBN10: 0750925191
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-09-01
• Publisher: Trafalgar Square

Summary

This work challenges the very idea of England and what it means to be English. Dr. Jones has examined the origins of the sense of English identity that persists today and this book reveals a new perspective on how it came about. Many leaders have recogn

Table of Contents

Foreword	v
Prologue	ix
Preface	xiii
Introduction	1	(30)
Building the Official Version of the English Past	31	(30)
England's Past in the Seventeenth Century	61	(33)
Common Law and the Isolationist View of the English Past	94	(21)
The Medieval Background to Reformation Historiography	115	(34)
Enlightenment and Romanticism in English Historiography	149	(19)
John Lingard and the Birth of Modern Historiography in England	168	(50)
The Official Version in the Victorian Period and in the Twentieth Century	218	(30)
Epilogue	248	(23)
Notes	271	(51)
Manuscript Sources	322	(4)
Index	326