The Making of England To 1399, Volume 1

by Hollister, C.; Stacey, Robert C.; Stacey, Robin Chapman

• ISBN13: 9780618001019
• ISBN10: 0618001018
• Edition: 8th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-11-30
• Publisher: Cengage Learning

Summary

This text, which is the first volume in the best-selling History of England series, tells how a small and insignificant outpost of the Roman empire evolved into a nation that has produced and disseminated so many significant ideas and institutions. The Eighth Edition incorporates more women's history, while continuing to provide balanced political and economic coverage with social and cultural history woven throughout.

Table of Contents

PART ONE The Birth of the Realm: To 1066	1	(124)
Celtic and Roman Britain	3	(36)
Britain Before the Romans	3	(6)
The Roman Invasions of Britain	9	(3)
The Conquest of the North	12	(2)
The Romanization of Southern Britain	14	(3)
Agricultural Prosperity in the Third and Fourth Centuries	17	(2)
The Fracturing of the Western Roman Empire	19	(5)
The End of Roman Britain	24	(3)
Britain in the Fifth and Sixth Centuries	27	(6)
The Anglo-Saxon Conquest	33	(6)
Conversion and Unification: Anglo-Saxon England to the Death of King Alfred (899)	39	(45)
The ``Celtic Church''	39	(3)
The Roman Church and Continental Monasticism	42	(2)
The Mission to England	44	(2)
The Conversion of Northumbria	46	(4)
The Synod of Whitby (664) and the Origins of ``Englishness''	50	(2)
Theodore and the Restructuring of the Anglo-Saxon Church	52	(1)
Renaissance and Renewal	53	(4)
Vernacular Literature	57	(2)
Missions to the Continent	59	(2)
Kingship and Power in Early Anglo-Saxon England	61	(4)
Toward Political Consolidation: Mercia	65	(5)
Toward Political Consolidation: Wessex	70	(1)
The Viking Age and the Birth of the English Monarchy	70	(4)
Alfred the Great	74	(10)
Late-Anglo-Saxon England	84	(41)
The Consequences of Political Unification	85	(1)
The Monastic Reform Movement	86	(4)
The Administrative Strength of the Late-Anglo-Saxon State	90	(5)
Law and Justice	95	(2)
Finance, Coinage, Towns, and Taxation	97	(4)
Changes on the Land	101	(3)
Social Mobility	104	(1)
Late-Anglo-Saxon Art	105	(3)
The Reign of Ethelred ``the Unready'' (978-1016) and the New Invasions	108	(4)
The Reign of Cnut (1016-1035)	112	(3)
The Reign of Edward the Confessor (1042-1066)	115	(3)
The Reign of Harold II and the Norman Conquest (1066)	118	(7)
PART TWO The Growth of the Realm: 1066 to 1216	125	(132)
The Impact of the Norman Conquest	127	(27)
The Conquest Consolidated	128	(8)
The Norman Church	136	(3)
The Problem of Feudalism	139	(7)
The Administrative Contributions of William the Conqueror	146	(3)
The Impact of the Norman Conquest upon English Society and the English Economy	149	(2)
The End of the Reign	151	(3)
Norman England: William II, Henry I, and Stephen	154	(25)
The Reign of William Rufus (1087-1100)	154	(5)
The Reign of Henry I (1100-1135)	159	(13)
The Reign of King Stephen (1135-1154)	172	(7)
``The Devil's Brood'': Henry II, Richard, and John	179	(34)
Military and Financial Reforms Under Henry II	181	(2)
Henry II and the Common Law	183	(5)
Henry II and the Church	188	(5)
The Angevin Empire	193	(4)
Richard the Lion-Hearted (1189-1199)	197	(1)
The Reign of Richard I	198	(3)
King John (1199-1216): An Evaluation	201	(3)
The Collapse of the Angevin Empire	204	(2)
The Struggle with the Papacy	206	(3)
Magna Carta (1215)	209	(4)
Society, Economy, and Culture in High-Medieval England	213	(44)
Towns and Commerce in High-Medieval England	218	(3)
Twelfth-Century London	221	(4)
The Jews of Angevin England	225	(1)
The Landholding Aristocracy	226	(4)
Women	230	(4)
Medieval Children	234	(2)
The Agrarian Economy of High-Medieval England and the Emergence of Common-Law Villeinage	236	(3)
Peasant Life in an English Village	239	(4)
High-Medieval Christianity	243	(2)
The New Orders	245	(3)
Intellectual Life	248	(4)
Art and Literature	252	(5)
PART THREE The Community and the Realm: 1216 to 1307	257	(44)
The Troubled Reign of King Henry III (1216-1272): Monarchy, Community, and Parliament	259	(27)
The Government of England during the Minority	261	(6)
The Personal Rule of King Henry III (1236-1258)	267	(3)
The Problems of Crown Finance (1236-1258)	270	(2)
The King and the Jews	272	(2)
The Period of Baronial Reform and Rebellion (1258-1267)	274	(5)
The Emergence of Parliament	279	(7)
The Reign of Edward I	286	(15)
Law and Administration	287	(7)
The Wars of Edward I	294	(7)
PART FOUR The Realm in Transition: 1307 to 1399	301	(60)
The Bloom Fades: England in the Age of Edward II	303	(18)
Economic and Social Change in Fourteenth Century England	303	(7)
The Reign of Edward II (1307-1327)	310	(11)
Edward III and the Hundred Years' War	321	(14)
The Reign of Edward III (1327-1377)	322	(5)
Parliament in the Fourteenth Century	327	(4)
Law and Administration	331	(2)
Edward III and the Decline of Royal Authority	333	(2)
Death, Disorder, and Creative Flowering	335	(26)
The Black Death	336	(4)
Political Conflict	340	(1)
Religious Ferment	341	(1)
The Flowering of English Literature	342	(2)
Political Anticlericalism	344	(1)
John Wycliffe	345	(2)
The Great Revolt of 1381	347	(5)
The Reign of Richard II (1377-1399)	352	(6)
Conclusion	358	(3)
Appendix	361	(2)
Bibliography	363	(26)
Index	389