The History of the Norman Conquest of England: Its Causes and Its ResultsClarendon Press, 1877 |
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Ælfred Æthelstan ancient Anglia Anglorum Appendix Archbishop Arnulf assembly battle Bishop Bretwalda Britain Cæsar called Celtic century CHAP Charles charter Christian Chronicles Cnut Cnut's connexion conquerors crown Danes Danish death Denmark Dipl dominion doubt duchy Dudo Duke Eadgar Eadmund Eadric Eadward Eadwig Ealdorman Earl earldom East-Anglia Ecgberht election Elfred Emma Emperor Empire enemy England English Ethelred father feudal Flod Flodoard Florence folkland French Gaul Gemót Godwine Godwine's grant Harold Harthacnut heathen Henry of Huntingdon homage Hugh Imperial invasion King kingdom land Laon later laws Lewis lord Lothian marriage Mercia nation Norman Conquest Normandy Northumberland Northumbrian Olaf Otto over-lord Palgrave Paris Pertz princes ravaged regis reign Richard Richer Rolf Roman Rouen royal Saint Saxon Scotland Scots Scottish seems settlement shires story Strathclyde Swegen Teutonic Thegns Thurkill tion vassal Welsh Wessex West-Saxon whole William of Malmesbury Witan word writers Wulfnoth
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Page 541 - Where by divers sundry old authentic histories and chronicles it is manifestly declared and expressed that this realm of England is an empire, and so hath been accepted in the world, governed by one Supreme Head and King having the dignity and royal estate of the imperial Crown of the same...
Page 5 - Economic activity, industry, and trade, deprived of the security of the first and second centuries, had declined at the end of the fourth and beginning of the fifth centuries...
Page 51 - West-Saxon king is an event so important for the history of the next four ^hundred years, and it is an event which is often so completely misunderstood, that I must reserve some consideration of its exact bearing for my next chapter. It is enough to say here that, from this time to the fourteenth century, the vassalage of Scotland was an essential part of the public law of the Isle of Britain.
Page 12 - English cities to a Roman source. In England again the local nomenclature is everywhere essentially Teutonic. A few great cities and a few great natural objects, London on the Thames and Gloucester on the Severn, still retain names older than the English Conquest ; but the great mass of the towns and villages of England bear names which were given them either by the Angles and Saxons of the fifth and sixth centuries or by the Danes of the ninth and tenth. In short, though the literal extirpation...
Page 141 - The Scandinavians in Gaul embraced the creed, the language, and the manners of their French neighbours, without losing a whit of their old Scandinavian vigour and love of adventure. The people thus formed became the foremost apostles alike of French chivalry and of Latin Christianity. They were the Saracens of Christendom, spreading themselves over every corner of the world and appearing in almost every character. They were the foremost in devotion, the most fervent votaries of their adopted creed,...
Page 72 - In the very earliest glimpses," says Mr. Freeman, "of Teutonic political life, we find the monarchic, the aristocratic, and the democratic elements already clearly marked. There are leaders with or without the royal title, — there are men of noble birth, whose noble birth (in whatever the original nobility may have consisted) entitles them to a pre-eminence in every way ; but beyond these there is a free and armed people, in whom it is clear that the ultimate sovereignty resides. Small matters...
Page 144 - And of his stock, far more truly than of the stock of Imperial Swabia, came the wonder of his own, and of all succeeding ages, — poet, scholar, warrior, legislator, the terror and the marvel of Christendom and of Islam ; the foe alike of Roman Pontiffs and of Moslem Sultans; who won alike the golden crown of Rome, and the thorny crown of Salem ; dreaded in one world as the foremost champion of Christ, cursed in another as the apostate votary of Mahomet — the gay, the brave, the wise, the relentless,...
Page 42 - A saint without superstition, a scholar without ostentation, a warrior all whose wars were fought in the defence of his country, a conqueror whose laurels were never stained by cruelty, a prince never cast down by adversity, never lifted up to insolence in the day of triumph — there is no other name in history to compare with his.
Page 44 - ... to me unknown was what of them would like those that after us were. But that which I met, either in Ine's days my kinsman, or in Offa's the king of the Mercians, or in...
Page 73 - ... of Teutonic political life, we find the monarchic, the aristocratic, and the democratic elements already clearly marked. There are leaders with or without the royal title ; there are men of noble birth, whose noble birth (in whatever the original nobility may have consisted) entitles them to a pre-eminence in every way ; but beyond these there is a free and armed people, in whom it is clear that the ultimate sovereignty resides. Small matters are decided by the chiefs alone ; great matters are...