The Loss of Normandy (1189-1204): Studies in the History of the Angevin Empire, Volume 1

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The University Press, 1913 - 603 pages

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Page 98 - Ste-Mcre-Eylite, not to be confused with the place of the same name in the Cotentin, Farm 140 li.
Page 144 - ... and earl John. In the flight, however, the king of France left the multitude and entered a certain church, at a distance from the high road, for the purpose of hearing mass ; but the king of England, not knowing that the king of France had concealed himself, still pursued his course, breathing forth threats and slaughter against the men of the king of France, and sought him, that he might either put him to death or take him alive. Being informed by a certain Fleming that the king of France had...
Page 27 - ... the power of the overlord had grown through the development of the demesne, combined with the activities of a central civil service.
Page 19 - ... curious dichotomy in the religious thought of all times shown by the existence of a religious consciousness which expresses itself both by elaborate ritual, magnificent pomp, and display, and also by an insistence on a complete annihilation of physical demonstration and a denial of ritual and pomp, seems to have been more marked in the twelfth century than it is to-day only because the twelfth century failed to reach perfection and balance eight hundred years earlier than we. These eight hundred...
Page 249 - But he advised publishing 1,000 copies, because Mr. Darwin had so brilliantly surmounted the formidable obstacles which he was honest enough to put in his own path. This is an interesting example of the way in which a man of good general ability, accustomed as a lawyer to apply broad principles of reason to different kinds of subject-matter, may arrive at sounder conclusions than a specialist.
Page 17 - under the shadow of Henry II's government, in all parts of the empire, from England to Gascony, legal principles and customs are reduced to writing in response to the pressure of local forces.
Page xii - interaction of Frankish and Scandinavian elements in the tenth century.' On the other hand, researches into later periods have reacted upon the problems of the earlier and in some degree reduced their importance. The exact nature of ducal authority, the precise amount of Scandinavian law in Normandy after the settlement of 912, become questions of less moment when it is proved that before the conquest of England Normandy had become a highly centralised feudal State, with financial, judicial and...
Page 186 - During this time the new duke of Normandy was in England, where he was received as king. The contest in western France resolved itself into a duel between Constance and the old queen Eleanor. On the one hand, the cause of Arthur was maintained by the judicious purchase of the great men of Maine and Touraine : Juhel of Mayenne was established as a marcher baron in Gorron and Ambrieres to watch the Norman frontier; i William des Roches was made seneschal of Anjou and Maine.
Page 107 - Rot horn agi et Cadomi quamdiu nobis placuerit. Et ideo vobis precipimus quod ei sitis intendentes tanquam custodi escaetarum et Judeorum et ei escaetas per ballias vestras custodiendas habere faciatis. A similar tendency was the concentration of bailiwicks in a few hands, and the separate distribution of the castles. This is very marked in the roll of 1203, but ia also noticeable in the rolls of King Richard's reign.
Page 51 - It is not paradoxical to say that feudalism in Normandy was worked out in such a logical and systematic way because feudal relations were regarded as the material of the state rather than as the end of its being. In England this was still more the case, mainly on account of the mainten1 C.

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