A History of England, Period I. Mediæval MonarchyBright, J. Franck (James Franck)
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A History of England, Period I. Mediæval Monarchy
Bright, J. Franck (James Franck)
Great Britain -- History
Stubbs’ Preface to _Life of Dunstan_ (Master of the Rolls’
series). E. W. Robertson’s _Essay on Dunstan_.
EADWARD THE CONFESSOR AND FAMILY OF GODWINE.
_Lives of Eadward_, edited by Luard (Rolls’ series). Freeman’s
_Norman Conquest_, vol. ii.
NORMANDY.
Palgrave’s _History of Normandy and England_. Freeman’s _Norman
Conquest_. William de Jumièges. Orderic Vitalis. William of
Poitiers.
NORMAN AND PLANTAGENET KINGS.
GENERAL HISTORIES.
Lingard. Lappenberg. Pearson’s _Early and Middle Ages of
England_. Hook’s _Lives of the Archbishops of Canterbury_.
Campbell’s _Lives of the Chancellors_. Foss’s _Judges of England_.
CONSTITUTIONAL.
Stubbs’ _Constitutional History_ and _Illustrative Documents_.
GENERAL AUTHORITIES.
Orderic Vitalis. _Anglo-Saxon Chronicle._
WILLIAM I.
Eadmer’s _Historia Novorum_. Domesday-Book with Ellis’
Introduction.
WILLIAM II.
Palgrave’s _William Rufus_. Eadmer’s _Life of Anselm_. Church’s
_Life of Anselm_.
HENRY I.
William of Malmesbury. Henry of Huntingdon (Surtees Society).
STEPHEN.
Gesta Stephani (Surtees Society).
HENRY II. and BECKET.
Dr. Giles’ _Collection of the Letters of Becket, Foliot, and John
of Salisbury_. Gervais of Canterbury till 1200 (_Twisden’s Decem
Scriptores_). Benedict of Peterborough, 1169-1192, and Roger of
Hoveden to 1201, with Stubbs’ Prefaces in the Rolls’ series.
William of Newbury, to 1198 (English Historical Society). Lord
Lyttleton’s _Life of Henry II._
IRELAND.
Geraldus Cambrensis’ _Conquest of Ireland_ (Rolls’ series,
translated in Bohn).
RICHARD I.
_Itinerarium Regis Ricardi_ (Rolls’ series). Richard of Devizes
(English Historical Society). Ralph of Diceto, 1200 (Twisden).
Several chronicles are translated in Bohn as _Chronicles of the
Crusades_.
JOHN AND THE GREAT CHARTER.
Roger of Wendover, who was continued by Matthew of Paris, and
William Rishanger (Rolls’ series). Chronicles of various abbeys,
such as Waverley and Dunstable. For the English reader, Stubbs’
_Illustrative Documents_.
HENRY III.
Matthew of Paris. Rishanger. _The Royal Letters_ (edited by
Shirley in the Rolls’ series). _The Rhyming Chronicle_ of
Robert of Gloucester to 1270. Blaauw’s _Barons’ War_. Wright’s
_Political Songs_ (Camden Society). Brewer’s _Monumenta
Franciscana_ (Rolls’ series).
LATER PLANTAGENETS.
GENERAL HISTORIES.
Sharon Turner’s _Middle Ages_. Lingard. Dr. Pauli’s _Geschichte
von England_. Hook’s _Archbishops_. Campbell’s _Chancellors_.
CONSTITUTIONAL.
Stubbs. Hallam.
GENERAL AUTHORITIES.
Rymer’s _Fœdera_. Public Documents published chiefly by
the Record Commission. Various Rolls, especially _Rolls of
Parliament_, _Statutes of the Realm_, _Proceedings and Ordinances
of the Privy Council_. Walter of Hemingburgh, to 1346. Thomas of
Walsingham, a compilation from the Annals of St. Albans Abbey
(Rolls’ series).
FOR SCOTCH HISTORY.
Hill Burton’s _History of Scotland_.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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