The Peoples of the British Isles,9780925065544

The Peoples of the British Isles

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Edition: 2nd
ISBN13: 9780925065544
ISBN10: 0925065544
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Pub. Date: 2002-01-01
Publisher(s): Lyceum Books
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Author Biography

Stanford E. Lehmberg (Ph.D. and Litt.D., Cambridge University) is Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Minnesota. A former Fulbright Scholar and recipient of two Guggenheim Fellowships, he has also received a Distinguished Teacher Award from the University of Minnesota.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
xi
List of Maps
xv
Preface xvii
Part I Prehistoric, Roman, and Anglo-Saxon Britain 1(46)
The Land and Peoples of Early Britain
3(18)
Geography of the British Isles
3(1)
Prehistoric Britain
4(3)
The Bronze and Iron Ages
7(1)
Stonehenge
8(1)
The Celts
9(3)
The Rise of Roman Britain
12(2)
The Decline of Roman Rule
14(2)
Life in Roman Britain
16(3)
Suggested Reading
19(2)
The Anglo-Saxon Era, 410-1066
21(26)
Anglo-Saxon Invasions and the Heptarchy
21(2)
Christianity in Anglo-Saxon England
23(4)
St. Augustine
27(1)
The First Danish Invasions: King Alfred and the Danelaw
28(1)
The Second Danish Invasions: Ethelred and Canute
29(1)
Edward the Confessor (1042-1066)
30(1)
The Events of 1066
31(1)
Anglo-Saxon Society
32(3)
Women
35(1)
Economic Conditions
36(1)
Scotland and Ireland
37(1)
Intellectual and Artistic Life in the British Isles
38(7)
Suggested Reading
45(2)
Part II Medieval Britain 47(96)
The First Century of Feudalism, 1066-1189
49(24)
William I and English Feudalism
49(3)
The Manorial System
52(1)
Continuity and Change
53(1)
The Domesday Book
54(1)
The Sons of William I
55(1)
Henry I (1100-1135)
56(1)
Stephen and Matilda, 1135-1154
57(1)
Henry II (1154-1189) and the Angevin Empire
57(2)
Wales, Ireland, and Scotland
59(2)
Ecclesiastical History
61(3)
Henry II and Thomas Becket
64(1)
The English Constitution Under Henry I and Henry II
65(1)
Royal Advisors and Councils
66(1)
Government Finance
67(1)
The Great Officers of State
68(1)
Local Government
68(1)
Royal Courts and the Common Law
69(2)
Suggested Reading
71(2)
The Age of the Barons, 1189-1327
73(16)
The Sons of Henry II
73(1)
Richard I (1189-1199) and John (1199-1216)
73(2)
The Barons and Magna Carta
75(1)
Henry III (1216-1272)
76(1)
Simon de Montfort's Parliament
77(1)
Edward I (1272-1307)
77(1)
The Development of Parliament
78(2)
Edward I and the Courts
80(1)
Edward I's Last Years
80(2)
Edward II (1307-1327)
82(1)
Wales and Ireland in the Thirteenth Century
82(3)
Scotland
85(2)
The Crisis of English Feudalism
87(1)
Suggested Reading
87(2)
The Later Middle Ages, 1327-1485
89(24)
Edward III (1327-1377) and the Hundred Years' War
89(2)
The Black Death
91(1)
Scotland and Edward III
92(1)
Edward III and Ireland
93(1)
Richard II and the Revolution of 1399
94(4)
Parliament in the Fourteenth Century
98(2)
Parliament in Scotland
100(1)
Henry IV (1399-1413) and Henry V (1413-1422)
100(2)
Wales Under the Lancastrians
102(1)
Henry VI (1422-1471)
103(2)
The Wars of the Roses, 1455-1485
105(2)
Edward IV (1461-1483) and the Yorkists
107(1)
Richard III (1483-1485)
107(2)
Parliament in the Fifteenth Century
109(1)
The Early Stewarts in Scotland
110(1)
Suggested Reading
111(2)
Medieval British Society, 1066-1485
113(30)
The Population
113(1)
Social Structure: The Peasants
114(1)
Social Structure: The Aristocracy and Middling Groups
115(2)
Medieval Women
117(2)
Inheritance Patterns
119(1)
Farms and Towns
119(2)
The Wool Trade
121(1)
Guilds
122(1)
Housing
123(2)
The Church
125(7)
Monks, Friars, and Nuns
132(3)
The Church in Medieval Society
135(1)
Wycliffe and the Lollards
136(1)
The Jews in England
136(1)
Schools and Universities
137(3)
Chaucer and the English Language
140(1)
The End of the Middle Ages
140(1)
Suggested Reading
141(2)
Part III The Tudors and The Stuarts 143(142)
The Earlier Tudors, 1485-1547
145(24)
Henry VII (1485-1509)
145(1)
The Impostors
146(1)
Dynastic Marriages
147(1)
Financial Administration
148(1)
The Early Reign of Henry VIII
149(3)
Cardinal Wolsey
152(2)
The King's Great Matter
154(2)
Thomas Cromwell and the Reformation Parliament, 1529-1536
156(2)
The Dissolution of the Monasteries
158(3)
The Reformation in Religion and Society
161(1)
The Six Wives of Henry VIII
162(1)
Henry VIII's Last Years
163(3)
Suggested Reading
166(3)
The Later Tudors, 1547-1603
169(20)
Edward VI (1547-1553) and the Triumph of Protestantism
169(3)
Mary Tudor (1553-1558): Catholicism, Exiles, and Martyrs
172(3)
Elizabeth I (1558-1603) and the Settlement of Religion
175(3)
Puritanism and Recusancy
178(2)
Domestic Politics and Foreign Policy
180(1)
Scotland and Mary, Queen of Scots
181(3)
The Netherlands and the Armada
184(1)
Essex's Rebellion and Execution
185(1)
The Virgin Queen's Last Years
186(1)
Suggested Reading
186(3)
The Celtic Lands and the Tudors
189(12)
The Celtic Peoples
189(1)
Wales
189(2)
Ireland and Henry VIII
191(1)
Queen Elizabeth and the Irish
192(1)
Religion in Ireland
193(2)
Scotland in the Sixteenth Century
195(1)
The Reformation in Scotland
196(2)
The Highlands
198(1)
The End of an Era
199(1)
Suggested Reading
199(2)
The Early Stuarts and the Civil War, 1603-1649
201(26)
The Seventeenth Century
201(1)
King James VI and I
201(2)
James I and the Puritans
203(1)
James's First Parliament
204(3)
Royal Favorites
207(1)
James's Later Parliaments
208(1)
Scotland: ``Government by Pen''
209(1)
Ireland: The Plantation of Ulster
210(1)
Charles I (1625-1649)
211(3)
Charles's Personal Rule, 1629-1640
214(1)
Religion During the Personal Rule
215(2)
The Short Parliament, 1640
217(1)
The Long Parliament, 1640-1660
218(1)
The Irish Massacre, 1641
219(1)
The Attempt on the Five Members, 1642
219(1)
Causes of the Civil War
220(1)
The Civil War, 1642-1646
221(3)
The Search for Peace
224(1)
The Trial and Execution of Charles I
224(1)
Suggested Reading
225(2)
The Interregnum, Restoration, and Glorious Revolution, 1649-1688
227(26)
The Interregnum, 1649-1660
227(1)
The Commonwealth
227(3)
The Protectorate
230(3)
Cromwellian Ireland and Scotland
233(1)
Religion During the Interregnum
234(1)
Richard Cromwell, 1658-1659
235(1)
Charles II and the Restoration
236(1)
The Restoration Settlement
237(1)
The Clarendon Code
238(1)
The Settlement in Wales, Ireland, and Scotland
239(1)
Clarendon's Ministry, 1660-1667
240(1)
The Cabal and the Third Dutch War
241(1)
Danby and the Rise of Political Parties
242(1)
The Exclusion Parliaments
243(1)
James II (1685-1688)
244(2)
Birth of a Catholic Heir
246(2)
The Glorious Revolution
248(2)
The Significance of the Glorious Revolution
250(1)
Suggested Reading
251(2)
Social and Intellectual History, 1485-1688
253(32)
The Population
253(1)
Social Classes
254(2)
Inflation
256(1)
The Enclosure Movement
257(1)
Beggars and Vagabonds
258(1)
Economic and Social Legislation
258(2)
Industrial Expansion
260(1)
Exploration, Trade, and Colonization
260(1)
Family Structure
261(1)
Women in Early Modern Society
262(3)
The Witchcraft Craze
265(1)
Housing and Architecture
265(1)
``Prodigy Houses''
266(6)
The Great Rebuilding
272(2)
Intellectual History and Literature
274(1)
Printing and Literacy
275(1)
The Scientific Revolution and the Royal Society
276(1)
Political Theory
277(1)
The Arts
278(2)
Education
280(3)
Suggested Reading
283(2)
Epilogue: The British Isles in 1688 285(2)
Appendix: Genealogical Tables 287(6)
Index 293

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