CONTENTS
OF
THE FIRST VOLUME
PART I.
ENGLAND BEFORE THE NORMAN CONQUEST.
[CHAPTER I.]
PREHISTORIC AND ROMAN BRITAIN.
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- Palæolithic Man of the River-Drift [1]
- Cave-dwelling Palæolithic Man [2]
- Neolithic Man [3]
- Celts and Iberians [5]
- The Celts in Britain [6]
- Goidels and Britons [6]
- Phœnicians and Greeks [7]
- Gauls and Belgians in Britain [8]
- Culture and War [9]
- Religion of the Britons [10]
- The Romans in Gaul B.C. 55 [10]
- Cæsar's First Invasion. B.C. 55 [11]
- Cæsar's Second Invasion. B.C. 54 [11]
- South-eastern Britain after Cæsar's Departure. B.C. 54—A.D. 43 [12]
- The Roman Empire [12]
- The Invasion of Aulus Plautius. A.D. 43 [12]
- The Colony of Camulodunum [13]
- The Conquests of Ostorius Scapula [14]
- Government of Suetonius Paullinus. 58 [14]
- Boadicea's Insurrection. 61 [15]
- The Vengeance of Suetonius [15]
- Agricola in Britain. 78—84 [16]
- Agricola's Conquests in the North [16]
- The Roman Walls [17]
- The Roman Province of Britain [19]
- Extinction of Tribal Antagonism [21]
- Want of National Feeling [22]
- Carausius and Allectus. 288—296 [22]
- Constantius and Constantine. 296—337 [22]
- Christianity in Britain [23]
- Weakness of the Empire [23]
- The Picts and Scots [23]
- The Saxons [24]
- Origin of the Saxons [24]
- The Roman Defence [24]
- End of the Roman Government. 383—410 [25]
[CHAPTER II.]
THE ENGLISH SETTLEMENTS.
- Britain after the Departure of the Romans. 410—449? [26]
- The Groans of the Britons [26]
- The Conquest of Kent. 449? [27]
- The South Saxons. 477 [27]
- The West Saxons and the East Saxons [28]
- The Anglian Settlements [28]
- Nature of the Conquest [28]
- The Cultivators of the Soil [29]
- Eorls, Ceorls, Gesiths [29]
- The Gesiths and the Villagers [30]
- English and Welsh [31]
- The Township and the Hundred [31]
- Weregild [32]
- Compurgation and Ordeal [32]
- Punishments [32]
- The Folk-moot [33]
- The Kingship [33]
- The Legend of Arthur [33]
- The West Saxon Advance [34]
- Repulse of the West Saxons [35]
- The Advance of the Angles [36]
- The Kymry [36]
- Britain at the End of the Sixth Century [37]
[CHAPTER III.]
THE STRIFE OF THE ENGLISH KINGDOMS.
- England and the Continent [37]
- Æthelberht's Supremacy [38]
- Gregory and the English [38]
- Augustine's Mission. 597 [39]
- Monastic Christianity [39]
- The Archbishopric of Canterbury [40]
- Death of Æthelberht. 616 [41]
- The Three Kingdoms opposed to the Welsh [41]
- Æthelfrith and the Kymry [41]
- Æthelfrith's Victories [42]
- The Greatness of Eadwine [43]
- Eadwine's Supremacy [44]
- Character of the later Conquests [44]
- Political Changes [45]
- Eadwine's Conversion and Fall [46]
- Oswald's Victory at Heavenfield [47]
- Oswald and Aidan [47]
- Oswald's Greatness and Overthrow [47]
- Penda's Overthrow [48]
- The Three Kingdoms and the Welsh [48]
- The English Missionaries [49]
- Dispute between Wilfrid and Colman. 664 [49]
- Archbishop Theodore and the Penitential System [50]
- Ealdhelm and Cædmon [51]
- Bede. 673—735 [52]
- Church Councils [52]
- Struggle between Mercia and Wessex [52]
- Mohammedanism and the Carolingian Empire [54]
- Ecgberht's Rule. 802—839 [54]