The history of England, from the earliest times to the Norman Conquest
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- THE POLITICAL HISTORY OF ENGLAND
- I. THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE NORMAN CONQUEST
- CONTENTS.
- ERRATA.
- CHAPTER I. THE PREHISTORIC FOREWORLD.
- CHAPTER II. CÆSAR IN BRITAIN.
- NOTE ON CÆSAR’S POINTS OF ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE IN HIS EXPEDITIONS TO BRITAIN.
- CHAPTER III. THE CENTURY OF SUSPENSE.
- CHAPTER IV. THE ROMAN CONQUEST OF BRITAIN.
- CHAPTER V. THE ROMAN OCCUPATION.
- CHAPTER VI. THE ANGLO-SAXON CONQUEST.
- CHAPTER VII. THE COMING OF AUGUSTINE.
- CHAPTER VIII. EDWIN OF DEIRA.
- CHAPTER IX. OSWALD OF BERNICIA.
- CHAPTER X. OSWY AND PENDA.
- CHAPTER XI. TERRITORIAL CHANGES—THE CONFERENCE AT WHITBY—THE GREAT PLAGUE.
- CHAPTER XII. KING EGFRID AND THREE GREAT CHURCHMEN: WILFRID THEODORE, CUTHBERT.
- CHAPTER XIII. THE LEGISLATION OF KING INE.
- NOTE ON ANGLO-SAXON MONEY.
- CHAPTER XIV. THE EIGHTH CENTURY.
- CHAPTER XV. EARLY DANISH INVASIONS—EGBERT AND ETHELWULF.
- CHAPTER XVI. ETHELWULF’S SONS—DANISH INVASIONS TO THE BAPTISM OF GUTHRUM.
- CHAPTER XVII. ALFRED AT PEACE.
- CHAPTER XVIII. ALFRED’S LAST DAYS.
- NOTE. ON THE EXTENT OF THE DANELAW.
- CHAPTER XIX. EDWARD AND HIS SONS.
- CHAPTER XX. EDGAR AND DUNSTAN.
- CHAPTER XXI. EDWARD THE MARTYR—OLD AGE OF DUNSTAN—NORMANS AND NORTHMEN.
- CHAPTER XXII. ETHELRED THE REDELESS.
- CHAPTER XXIII. CANUTE AND HIS SONS.
- CHAPTER XXIV. LEGISLATION OF THE LATER KINGS.
- CHAPTER XXV. EDWARD THE CONFESSOR. (1042–1066.)
- CHAPTER XXVI. STAMFORD BRIDGE AND HASTINGS.
- APPENDIX I. AUTHORITIES.
- APPENDIX II. GENEALOGY OF NORTHUMBRIAN KINGS.
- APPENDIX III. GENEALOGY OF WEST SAXON KINGS BEFORE EGBERT
- FOOTNOTES.
- INDEX.
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