Feudal England: Historical Studies on the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries
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- FEUDAL ENGLAND
- PREFACE
- CONTENTS
- PART I TERRITORIAL STUDIES
- DOMESDAY BOOK
- I. NATURE OF THE 'INQ. COM. CANT.'
- II. CRITICISM OF THE DOMESDAY TEXT
- III. 'SOCA' AND 'THEINLAND'
- IV. THE DOMESDAY CARUCA
- V. THE DOMESDAY HIDE
- VI. THE FIVE-HIDE UNIT
- VII. THE SIX-CARUCATE UNIT
- VIII. THE LEICESTERSHIRE 'HIDA'
- IX. THE LANCASHIRE 'HIDA'
- X. THE YORKSHIRE UNIT
- XI. GENERAL CONCLUSIONS
- XII. THE EAST ANGLIAN 'LEET'
- XIII. THE WORDS 'SOLINUM' AND 'SOLANDA'192
- XIV. THE 'FIRMA UNIUS NOCTIS'
- XV. 'WARA'
- XVI. THE DOMESDAY 'JURATORES'
- XVII. THE 'INQUISITIO ELIENSIS'
- XVIII. THE ELY RETURN
- XIX. FIRST MENTION OF DOMESDAY BOOK
- THE NORTHAMPTONSHIRE GELD-ROLL
- THE KNIGHTS OF PETERBOROUGH
- THE WORCESTERSHIRE SURVEY
- THE LINDSEY SURVEY
- THE LEICESTERSHIRE SURVEY
- Text of the Survey
- Gosecote Wap'
- Framelaund Wap'
- THE NORTHAMPTONSHIRE SURVEY
- Hokeslawe
- Naueford
- Pokebroc
- Duo Hundred de Nasso
- Hundred de Sutton
- Hundred de Albodestowe
- Hundred de Wardon
- THE INTRODUCTION OF KNIGHT SERVICE INTO ENGLAND1
- 1. THE 'CARTAE' OF 1166
- II. THE SERVITIUM DEBITUM
- III. SCUTAGE, AID, AND 'DONUM'
- IV. THE TOTAL NUMBER OF KNIGHTS DUE
- V. THE NORMAL KNIGHT'S FEE
- VI. THE EARLY EVIDENCE
- VII. THE WORCESTER RELIEF (1095)
- PART II HISTORICAL STUDIES
- NORMANS UNDER EDWARD THE CONFESSOR
- MR FREEMAN AND THE BATTLE OF HASTINGS
- THE NAME OF 'SENLAC'
- THE PALISADE
- MR FREEMAN'S AUTHORITIES FOR IT
- MY ARGUMENT AGAINST IT
- THE SHIELD-WALL
- THE DISPOSITION OF THE ENGLISH
- THE NORMAN ADVANCE
- THE FOSSE DISASTER
- THE GREAT FEIGNED FLIGHT
- THE RELIEF OF ARQUES
- SUMMARY
- CONCLUSION
- MASTER WACE
- WACE'S MEANING
- WACE'S AUTHORITY
- WACE AND HIS SOURCES39
- NOTE ON THE PSEUDO-INGULF
- REGENBALD, PRIEST AND CHANCELLOR
- THE CONQUEROR AT EXETER
- THE ALLEGED DESTRUCTION OF LEICESTER
- ELY AND HER DESPOILERS
- THE LORDS OF ARDRES
- EARLY IRISH TRADE WITH CHESTER AND ROUEN1
- WALTER TIREL AND HIS WIFE
- WALDRIC, WARRIOR AND CHANCELLOR
- A CHARTER OF HENRY I (1123)
- THE ORIGIN OF THE NEVILLES
- THE ALLEGED INVASION OF ENGLAND IN 1147
- THE ALLEGED DEBATE ON DANEGELD (1163)
- A GLIMPSE OF THE YOUNG KING'S COURT (1170)
- THE FIRST KNOWN FINE (1175)
- I
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- THE MONTMORENCY IMPOSTURE
- THE OXFORD DEBATE ON FOREIGN SERVICE (1197)
- RICHARD THE FIRST'S CHANGE OF SEAL (1198)
- COMMUNAL HOUSE DEMOLITION
- THE CINQUE PORTS CHARTERS
- ADDENDA
- INDEX
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