TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sayles,G.O.
TI  - The medieval foundation of England
PY  - 1961///
CY  - New York
PB  - A.S. Barnes & Co.
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - History
KW  - To 1485
N1  - Includes index; Cont.: Britain on the eve of the Anglo-Saxon settlements -- The sources of history before 871 -- The early conquests and settlements -- The conversion of England -- The movement towards political unity -- The sources of history, 871-1066 -- The invasion of the Northmen -- The salvation of Wessex -- The conversion of the Wessex kingship into an English monarchy -- St. Dunstan and the revival of the church -- The agricultural foundation of England -- The structure of Anglo-Saxon society -- The impact of Scandinavian and Anglo-Saxon civilizations -- The last English kings -- The administrative history of England, 899-1066 -- Church and culture in the eleventh century -- The feudalization of society before the Norman Conquest -- The impact of the Normans upon Anglo-Saxon civilization -- The sources of history in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries -- Administration under the Norman monarchy -- The lessons of anarchy -- The new monarchy -- The religious revival and intellectual renaissance -- Administration without the king -- The circumscription of monarchy -- The striving towards constitutional opposition -- Social and economic developments in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries -- The medieval parliaments of England
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