England and Its Rulers : 1066 - 1307

England and Its Rulers : 1066 - 1307

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Clanchy, Michael T
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2014
Series:New York Academy of Sciences Ser
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Wiley Blackwell Classic Histories of England
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Contents
  • Preface to the Fourth Edition
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Maps
  • 1: England's Place in Medieval Europe
  • England and its conquerors
  • Europe and the world
  • England's destiny
  • Interpretations of English history
  • England and Britain
  • Part I: The Normans (1066-1135)
  • 2: The Norman Conquest (1066-87)
  • Immediately after the Conquest
  • Debates about the Conquest
  • English feelings about the Normans
  • Names and languages
  • Domesday Book
  • 3: Norman Government (1087-1135)
  • William Rufus and Henry I
  • The development of institutions
  • The Exchequer
  • Feudalism
  • 4: Church Reform
  • The Anglo-Saxon church
  • Lanfranc and Norman control
  • Anselm and religious perfection
  • Monastic expansion
  • 5: The Creation of Wealth
  • Competition between churches and towns
  • Markets and money
  • What was wealth?
  • Did the Normans make a difference?
  • Part II: The Angevins (1135-99)
  • 6: Struggles for the Kingdom (1135-99)
  • Property and inheritance
  • Stephen and Matilda
  • Henry II's ancestral rights
  • Henry II and his sons
  • Richard I
  • 7: Law and Order
  • The law and feudalism
  • The system described by Glanvill
  • Henry II's intentions
  • Bureaucracy
  • Why did England develop a system of its own?
  • 8: The Twelfth-century Renaissance
  • England's place in this Renaissance
  • Curiales and Latinists
  • The Owl and the Nightingale
  • Artists and patrons
  • 9: The Matter of Britain
  • Arthur and Merlin
  • Wales - defining an allegiance
  • Modernization in Scotland
  • Civilization in Ireland
  • 10: Family and Gender
  • Gender
  • Clerics and the family
  • The law of marriage
  • House and home
  • Part III: The Poitevins (1199-1272)
  • 11: King John and the Minority of Henry III (1199-1227)
  • The Poitevin connection
  • The record of King John
  • Magna Carta
  • The regency of William the Marshal
  • Implications of the minority
  • 12: The Personal Rule of Henry III (1227-58)
  • Contemporary rulers
  • The return of Peter des Roches
  • Henry's style of kingship
  • Henry's European strategy
  • The 'Sicilian business'
  • 13: National Identity
  • National feeling in Henry III's reign
  • The papacy and internationalism
  • The identity of England
  • The use of the English language
  • From lordship to nation state
  • The expulsion of the Poitevins
  • 14: The Commune of England (1258-72)
  • The confederates of 1258
  • The idea of the commune
  • The Provisions of Oxford
  • Henry III's recovery
  • Monarchy versus community
  • The king and Westminster abbey
  • 15: Lordship and the Structure of Society
  • Homage and honour
  • Women and lordship
  • Lords, freemen and serfs
  • Lordship and management
  • Epilogue
  • 16: Edward I (1272-1307)
  • Assessing the king's character
  • The enforcement of royal rights
  • The conquest of Wales
  • The subjection of Scotland
  • English law and nationalism
  • Genealogical Tables
  • Suggestions for Further Reading
  • Index

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