23. Archbishop Theodore and the Penitential System 50 24. Ealdhelm and Caedmon 51 25. Bede. 673--735 52 26. Church Councils 52 27. Struggle between Mercia and Wessex 52 28. Mohammedanism and the Carolingian Empire 54 29. Ecgberht's Rule. 802--839 54 CHAPTER IV. THE ENGLISH KINGSHIP AND THE STRUGGLE WITH THE DANES. 1. The West Saxon Supremacy 55 2. The Coming of the Northmen 56 3. The English Coast Plundered 57 4. The Danes in the North 57 5. AElfred's Struggle in Wessex. 871--878 58 6. The Treaty of Chippenham, and its Results. 878 59 7. AElfred's Military Work 60 8. His Laws and Scholarship 60 9. Eadward the Elder. 899--925 62 10. Eadward's Conquests 62 11. Eadward and the Scots 63 12. AEthelstan. 925--940 63 13. Eadmund (940--946) and Eadred (946--955) 63 14. Danes and English 64 15. Eadwig. 955--959 64 16. Dunstan 65 17. Archbishop Oda 65 18. Eadwig's Marriage 67 CHAPTER V. EADGAR'S ENGLAND. 1. Eadgar and Dunstan. 959--975 67 2. The Cession of Lothian 68 3. Changes in English Institutions 69 4. Growth of the King's Power 69 5. Conversion of the Freemen into Serfs 69 6. The Hundred-moot and the Lord's Court 72 7. The Towns 72 8. The Origin of the Shires 73 9. The Shire-moot 73 10. The Ealdormen and the Witenagemot 73 11. The Land 75 12. Domestic Life 75 13. Food and Drink 75 CHAPTER VI. ENGLAND AND NORMANDY. 1. Eadward the Martyr. 975--979 78 2. AEthelred's Early Years. 979--988 79 3. The Return of the Danes. 984 79 4. The Norman Dukes. 912--1002 80