EUROPE AT THE CLOSE OF THE 11TH CENTURY
CONTENTS.
| I. | |
| PAGE | |
| [The Men of the Dragon Ships] | [1]-[29] |
| The ancient Northmen, [1]-[3] — Manner of life, [4]-[6] — Hall-life and hospitality, [7] — Sagamen, [8] — Sea-kings and vikings, [9] — Charlemagne and the vikings,[11]— Viking voyages and settlements, [12]-[22] — The Northmen in France, [23]-[27] — Modern inheritance from the Northmen, [28]. | |
| II. | |
| [Rolf the Ganger] | [30]-[51] |
| Harold Haarfager, [30] — Jarl Rögnwald, [32] — Rolf's outlawry, [33] — Charles the Simple, [35] — The Archbishop of Rouen, [37] — Hasting, [38] — Siege of Bayeux, [40] — Rolf's character, [41] — Thefounding of Normandy, [43] — The king's grant, [45] — Rolf'schristening, [46] — Law and order, [48] — Rolf's death, [50]. | |
| III. | |
| [William Longsword] | [52]-[65] |
| French influences; Charlemagne; Charles the Fat, [52]-[54] — Feudalism, [55] — The Franks, [55] — Norman loyalty to France, [57] — Longsword's politics, [60] — The Bayeux Northmen, [61] — Longsword'slove of the cloister, [63] — Longsword's character, [64]. | |
| IV. | |
| [Richard the Fearless] | [66]-[89] |
| Longsword's son, [66] — A Norman castle, [67] — News ofLongsword's death, [69] — His funeral, [70] — Richard madeduke, [70] — The guardianship of Louis of France, [72] — Detentionof Richard and escape from Laon, [73]-[75] — Hugh ofParis, [76] — Louis at Rouen, [77] — Norman plots, [80] — HaroldBlaatand, [81] — Normandy against France, [82] — Independenceof Normandy, [84] — Normandy and England, [85] — Gerberga, [85] — Alliance with Hugh of Paris; with Hugh Capet, [86]-[88] — Death of Richard, [89]. | |
| V. | |
| [Duke Richard the Good] | [90]-[114] |
| Richard the Good's succession, [90] — French influences, [91] — Lackof records, [91] — Prosperity of the duchy, [92] — Richard'slove of courtliness and splendor, [92] — Wrongs of thecommon people; their complaint, [93]-[95] — Raoul of Ivry, [96] — The Flemish colony; the Falaise fair; Richard'sbrother William, [97], [98] — Robert of France, [99] — Richard'smarriage, [101] — Æthelred the Unready, [102] — The Danes inEngland, [103] — Emma of Normandy, [105]; Trouble withBurgundy, [107] — The lands of Dreux, [109] — The Count-Bishopof Chalons, [110]; Norman chroniclers, [112] — Ermenoldus;the third Richard and his murder, [112]-[114]. | |
| VI. | |
| [Robert the Magnificent] | [115]-[129] |
| Power and wealth of Normandy, [115] — The English princes, [118] — Cnut of England and Queen Emma, [119] — Robert'slavishness; Baldwin of Flanders, [120]-[122] — The tanner'sdaughter, [122] — Norman pride and Robert's defiance of publicopinion, [124] — Robert's pilgrimage to Jerusalem, [125] — Hisdeath at Nicæa, [129]. | |
| VII. | |
| [The Normans in Italy] | [130]-[148] |
| Hasting the pirate, [130] — Early Norman colonies in thesouth of Europe, [132] — The Norman character, [134] — Tancredde Hauteville, [135] — Serlon de Hauteville, [136] — Sicily, [139] — Pope Leo the Tenth, [140] — Robert Guiscard, [141] — Rapidprogress of the Norman-Italian States and theirprosperity, [142] — Norman architecture in Sicily, [145]. | |
| VIII. | |
| [The Youth of William the Conqueror] | [149]-[170] |
| Typical character of William, [149] — Loneliness of his childhood, [151] — William de Talvas, [152] — The feudal system, [153] — Christianity and knighthood, [156] — Ceremonies at the making of a knight, [157] — The oaths of knighthood, [161] — The Truce of God, [166]-[170]. | |
| IX. | |
| [Across the Channel] | [171]-[194] |
| Changes in England, [171] — Æthelred, [172] — The Danegelt, [173] — The Danes again, [175] — Swegen, [177] — Cnut, [178] — EadmundIronside, [180] — Cnut's pilgrimage, [181] — Godwine, [184] — Eadward the Confessor, [187] — The Dover quarrel, [189] — Normansin England, [192] — Castles, [193]. | |
| X. | |
| [The Battle of Val-ès-Dunes] | [195]-[214] |
| Roger de Toesny, [196] — William's boyhood, [198] — Escapefrom Valognes, [199] — The Lord of Rye, [200] — Guy of Burgundy, [201] — Rebellion, [202] — Val-ès-Dunes, [204] — Ralph ofTesson, [206] — Neal of St. Saviour, [208] — William's leniency, [211] — His mastery, [213] — The siege of Alençon, [213]. | |
| XI. | |
| [The Abbey of Bec] | [215]-[231] |
| Cloistermen, [215] — Soldiery and scholarship, [216] — Buildingof religious houses, [218] — Cathedrals, [220] — Benedictines, [222] — Herluin and his abbey, [223] — Lanfranc, [226] — Hisinfluence in Normandy, [229]. | |
| XII. | |
| [Matilda of Flanders] | [232]-[254] |
| Flanders, [232] — Objections to William's marriage, [234] — Marriageof William and Matilda at Eu, [236] — Mauger, [237] — Rebuildingof churches, [239] — William's early visit toEngland, [242] — Godwine's return, [244] — His death, [245] — Jealousyof France, [246] — The French invasion of Normandy, [247] — Battle of Mortemer, [248] — The curfew bell, [251] — Battle of Varaville, [252] — Harold of England's visit, [254]. | |
| XIII. | |
| [Harold the Englishman] | [255]-[274] |
| Causes and effects of war, [255] — Relations of William andHarold, [256] — Harold's unfitness as a leader of the English, [257] — His shipwreck on the coast of Ponthieu, [260] — William'spalace in Rouen, [261] — News of Harold's imprisonmentby Guy of Ponthieu, [262] — Harold's release, [264] — Hislife in Normandy, [265] — His oath, [267] — Eadward's last illness, [269] — Harold named as successor, [272]. | |
| XIV. | |
| [News from England] | [275]-[294] |
| Harold made king, [275] — William hears the news, [276] — TheNormans begin to plan for war, [278] — William's embassy, [280] — The council at Lillebonne, [280] — The baronshold back, [282] — Lanfranc's influence at Rome, [286] — Tostig, [287] — Harold's army, [290] — Harold Hardrada, [291] — Thebattle of Stamford Bridge, [293]. | |
| XV. | |
| [The Battle of Hastings] | [295]-[311] |
| Normandy makes ready for war, [295] — The army at St.Valery, [297] — William crosses the Channel, [298] — The campat Hastings, [300] — Harold of England, [302] — Senlac, [304] — Thebattle array, [306] — The great fight, [308] — The Normanvictory, [310]. | |
| XVI. | |
| [William the Conqueror] | [312]-[344] |
| Norman characteristics, [312] — William's coronation, [314] — Hisplan of government, [316] — Return to Normandy, [320] — Caen, [322] — The Bayeux tapestry, [323] — Matilda crownedqueen, [325] — Difficulties of government, [327] — The Englishforests, [330] — Decay of learning in Eadward's time, [331] — William'slaws against slavery, [332] — His son Robert, [333] — Thequeen's death, [335] — Odo's plot, [335] — William's injuryat Mantes, [337] — His illness and death, [339] — Descriptionfrom Roman de Rou, [341]. | |
| XVII. | |
| [Kingdom and Dukedom] | [345]-[358] |
| William Rufus, [345] — Robert of Normandy, [346] — WilliamRufus in England, [349] — Duke Robert goes on pilgrimage, [351] — Murder of William Rufus, [353] — Henry Beauclercseizes the English crown, [355] — Death of Prince William, [358]. | |
| XVIII. | |
| [Conclusion] | [359]-[366] |
| Development of Norman character, [360] — Northern influences, [362] — The great inheritance, [365]. | |
