[CHAPTER IV.]
THE ENGLISH KINGSHIP AND THE STRUGGLE WITH THE DANES.
- The West Saxon Supremacy [55]
- The Coming of the Northmen [56]
- The English Coast Plundered [57]
- The Danes in the North [57]
- Ælfred's Struggle in Wessex. 871—878 [58]
- The Treaty of Chippenham, and its Results. 878 [59]
- Ælfred's Military Work [60]
- His Laws and Scholarship [60]
- Eadward the Elder. 899—925 [62]
- Eadward's Conquests [62]
- Eadward and the Scots [63]
- Æthelstan. 925—940 [63]
- Eadmund (940—946) and Eadred (946—955) [63]
- Danes and English [64]
- Eadwig. 955—959 [64]
- Dunstan [65]
- Archbishop Oda [65]
- Eadwig's Marriage [67]
[CHAPTER V.]
EADGAR'S ENGLAND.
- Eadgar and Dunstan. 959—975 [67]
- The Cession of Lothian [68]
- Changes in English Institutions [69]
- Growth of the King's Power [69]
- Conversion of the Freemen into Serfs [69]
- The Hundred-moot and the Lord's Court [72]
- The Towns [72]
- The Origin of the Shires [73]
- The Shire-moot [73]
- The Ealdormen and the Witenagemot [73]
- The Land [75]
- Domestic Life [75]
- Food and Drink [75]
[CHAPTER VI.]
ENGLAND AND NORMANDY.
- Eadward the Martyr. 975—979 [78]
- Æthelred's Early Years. 979—988 [79]
- The Return of the Danes. 984 [79]
- The Norman Dukes. 912—1002 [80]
- Political Contrast between Normandy and England [81]
- Svend's Conquest. 1002—1013 [81]
- Æthelred Restored. 1014—1016 [82]
- Eadmund Ironside. 1016 [83]
- Cnut and the Earldoms. 1016—1035 [83]
- Cnut's Empire [84]
- Cnut's Government [84]
- The Sons of Cnut. 1035—1042 [85]
- Eadward the Confessor and Earl Godwine. 1042—1051 [86]
- The Banishment of Godwine. 1051 [87]
- Visit of Duke William. 1051 [88]
- William and the Norman Church [88]
- The Return and Death of Godwine. 1052—1053 [89]
- Harold's Greatness. 1053—1066 [89]
- Harold and Eadward. 1057—1065 [90]
- Death of Eadward. 1066 [90]
- Harold and William. 1066 [91]
- Stamford Bridge. 1066 [93]
- The Landing of William. 1066 [96]
- The Battle of Senlac. 1066 [96]
- William's Coronation. 1066 [98]
PART II.
THE NORMAN AND ANGEVIN KINGS.
[CHAPTER VII.]
WILLIAM I. 1066—1087.
- The First Months of the Conquest. 1066—1067 [101]
- The Conquest of the West and North. 1067—1069 [102]
- The Completion of the Conquest. 1070 [103]
- Hereward's Revolt and the Homage of Malcolm. 1070—1072 [103]
- How William kept down the English [104]
- How William kept down the Normans [105]
- Ecclesiastical Organisation. [106]
- Pope Gregory VII. [107]
- William and Gregory VII. [108]
- The Rising of the Earls. 1075 [110]
- The New Forest [110]
- Domesday Book. 1085—1086 [111]
- William's Great Councils [112]
- The Gemot at Salisbury. 1086 [113]
- William's Death. 1087 [114]
[CHAPTER VIII.]
WILLIAM II. 1087—1100.