Introduction to the Study of English History

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K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Company, Limited, 1903 - 468 pages
 

Contents

Abstract conception of Rome
10
The Christian Church II
11
The Empire and the Church
12
Fall of the Empire in the West
13
CHAPTER II
15
Elizabeth and the Puritans
18
The Elizabethan Church
19
Elizabeth and the national spirit
20
Moral needs of the population
21
Englands position in Europe
22
The Christian missionaries in England 9 The monastic system
23
The penitential system
24
Church organisation 12 The Church compared with the Empire 13 Church and State
27
Union of the kingdoms under Egbert 15 The Danish wars 16 The struggle of the West Saxon kings with the Danes
29
Growth of kingly authority 18 Growth of a military aristocracy
32
The Eorls superseded by the Thegns 20 The change gradual
34
The King and the Witenagemot 22 Dunstans ecclesiastical policy 23 The secular laws of Edgar
37
Ethelred and Edmund 25 Cnuts reign 26 Edward the Confessor
38
The House of Godwin
39
CHAPTER III
41
New ideas in Italy and France 3 Norman adaptability 4 Norman organisation in England 5 The national kingship
42
Institutions of the first Norman kings
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CHAPTER VI
62
Tentative efforts
68
The early years of Edward I
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Constitutional Kingship 13271485
83
Decline of the Papacy
84
National unity
85
The connexion between England and Flanders
86
The beginning of the Hundred Years War
87
The Constitution of the House of Commons
88
Unity of the nation
89
Growing strength of the Commons
90
The labourers
91
Piers the Ploughman
92
Wyclifs principles
94
Wyclifs failure
95
The Conservative reaction
96
The Revolution of 1399
97
The decay of the baronage
98
Causes of the rise of the Tudor Monarchy
99
CHAPTER VI
101
The Star Chamber
102
End of the Middle Ages
103
The Italian Renaissance
104
The separation from Rome
106
Character of the age
110
Edward VI III
111
Mary
112
The religious difficulty at the accession of Elizabeth
113
The House of Commons and the Church 8 The King without Parliament 9 The Puritan Opposition
137
The Constitutional Opposition
140
The beginning of the Long Parliament
142
Breach between King and Parliament 15 The Kings supporters
143
The supporters of the Parliament
146
The Civil
147
Cromwell and the Sects
148
Supremacy of the army
149
CHAPTER VIII
150
Aims of the Protectorate 2 The Rights of Minorities 16531688
151
Government by the army
152
Government of the Restoration 5 The Divine Right of Kings 6 Character of the Restoration
154
Prospects of Toleration
155
Antagonism to France and the Papacy 9 The Exclusion Bill
158
Reign of James II
160
The Revolution of 1688
161
CHAPTER IX
163
Immediate results of the predominance of the House of Commons
166
Cabinet Government
167
The House of Commons and the Nation 7 Effacement of the Tory party
169
Influence of the large landowners 9 The Whigs and the Dissenters
171
Hogarth and Fielding
173
CHAPTER X
176
Wesleyanism 3 William Pitt
178
The decline of the Whig Aristocracy
179
The accession of George III
181
The expulsion of Wilkes and American taxation 8 Comparison between Burke and Bacon
184
The new Tories
185
The American
186
The Coalition Ministry 12 Pitts Ministry
188
CHAPTER XI
192
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INTRODUCTORY
207
Pictet
231
450 to the Norman Conquest
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From the Accession of King John to the Death of Edward II
270
CHAPTER V
284
CHAPTER VI
302
CHAPTER VII
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CONTEMPORARY WRITERS Authorities already described Greens
358
CHAPTER IX
371
CONTEMPORARY WRITERS Calendar of State Papers by Mr Red
395
CONTEMPORARY WRITERS Writers already described Burke
405
CHAPTER III
413
INDEX
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INDEX TO SUPPLEMENT
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