England and Its Rulers : 1066 - 1307.

Cover -- Wiley Blackwell Classic Histories of England -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Preface to the Fourth Edition -- List of Abbreviations -- Maps -- 1: England's Place in Medieval Europe -- England and its conquerors -- Europe and the world -- England's destiny -- Interpretations of English history -- England and Britain -- Part I: The Normans (1066-1135) -- 2: The Norman Conquest (1066-87) -- Immediately after the Conquest -- Debates about the Conquest -- English feelings about the Normans -- Names and languages -- Domesday Book -- 3: Norman Government (1087-1135) -- William Rufus and Henry I -- The development of institutions -- The Exchequer -- Feudalism -- 4: Church Reform -- The Anglo-Saxon church -- Lanfranc and Norman control -- Anselm and religious perfection -- Monastic expansion -- 5: The Creation of Wealth -- Competition between churches and towns -- Markets and money -- What was wealth? -- Did the Normans make a difference? -- Part II: The Angevins (1135-99) -- 6: Struggles for the Kingdom (1135-99) -- Property and inheritance -- Stephen and Matilda -- Henry II's ancestral rights -- Henry II and his sons -- Richard I -- 7: Law and Order -- The law and feudalism -- The system described by Glanvill -- Henry II's intentions -- Bureaucracy -- Why did England develop a system of its own? -- 8: The Twelfth-century Renaissance -- England's place in this Renaissance -- Curiales and Latinists -- The Owl and the Nightingale -- Artists and patrons -- 9: The Matter of Britain -- Arthur and Merlin -- Wales - defining an allegiance -- Modernization in Scotland -- Civilization in Ireland -- 10: Family and Gender -- Gender -- Clerics and the family -- The law of marriage -- House and home -- Part III: The Poitevins (1199-1272) -- 11: King John and the Minority of Henry III (1199-1227) -- The Poitevin connection.

The record of King John -- Magna Carta -- The regency of William the Marshal -- Implications of the minority -- 12: The Personal Rule of Henry III (1227-58) -- Contemporary rulers -- The return of Peter des Roches -- Henry's style of kingship -- Henry's European strategy -- The 'Sicilian business' -- 13: National Identity -- National feeling in Henry III's reign -- The papacy and internationalism -- The identity of England -- The use of the English language -- From lordship to nation state -- The expulsion of the Poitevins -- 14: The Commune of England (1258-72) -- The confederates of 1258 -- The idea of the commune -- The Provisions of Oxford -- Henry III's recovery -- Monarchy versus community -- The king and Westminster abbey -- 15: Lordship and the Structure of Society -- Homage and honour -- Women and lordship -- Lords, freemen and serfs -- Lordship and management -- Epilogue -- 16: Edward I (1272-1307) -- Assessing the king's character -- The enforcement of royal rights -- The conquest of Wales -- The subjection of Scotland -- English law and nationalism -- Genealogical Tables -- Suggestions for Further Reading -- Index.

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