| Contents |
| Plates |
xiv |
| Figures |
xv |
| Maps |
xvi |
| Tables |
xvii |
| Abbreviations |
xviii |
| Note on Money |
xxx |
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| Introduction |
1 |
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| 1. Political Patterns |
4 |
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1 |
The Struggle for the Succession, 1075-1225 |
4 |
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2 |
The Cross-Channel Realm |
11 |
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3 |
Court Politics |
28 |
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4 |
Predatory and Punitive Rule |
48 |
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5 |
Rebellion |
51 |
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| 2. England and Beyond |
68 |
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1 |
England and the British Isles |
68 |
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2 |
England and the Wider World |
102 |
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| 3. Lordship and Government |
121 |
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1 |
Kingship and Lordship |
121 |
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2 |
Regality |
123 |
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3 |
The Household and Household Administration |
130 |
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4 |
Itineration |
133 |
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5 |
Assemblies |
143 |
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6 |
Territorial Administration |
147 |
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7 |
Royal Finances |
159 |
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8 |
Courts and Judgements |
177 |
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9 |
Records and Record-Keeping |
193 |
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| 4. The Aristocracy |
202 |
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1 |
The Structure of the Aristocracy |
202 |
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2 |
The Aristocratic Estate |
219 |
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3 |
The Life of the Aristocracy |
229 |
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| 5. Warfare |
252 |
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1 |
Waging War |
252 |
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2 |
Recruitment |
261 |
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3 |
Castles |
269 |
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| 6. The Rural Foundations |
287 |
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1 |
The Physical Framework |
287 |
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2 |
Population |
290 |
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3 |
Settlement Patterns |
297 |
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4 |
Land Use and Agricultural Technique |
302 |
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5 |
The Manorial Economy |
313 |
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6 |
Rural Social Structure |
316 |
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| 7. Towns and Trade |
331 |
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1 |
Urbanization |
331 |
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2 |
Town Law |
335 |
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3 |
Urban Self-Government |
337 |
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4 |
London |
342 |
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5 |
Urban Unrest |
344 |
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6 |
The Jews |
346 |
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7 |
Trade: The Framework |
360 |
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8 |
Commodities |
365 |
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9 |
Coinage and Monetization |
370 |
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| 8. The Institutional Church |
377 |
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1 |
The Hierarchy |
377 |
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2 |
The Religious |
412 |
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| 9. Religious Life |
442 |
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1 |
Concepts of the Holy |
442 |
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2 |
Devotion |
449 |
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3 |
Saints and their Cults |
460 |
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4 |
Overseas Pilgrimage |
472 |
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5 |
Dissent |
476 |
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| 10. Cultural Patterns |
482 |
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1 |
Languages and Literatures |
482 |
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2 |
Education and High Learning |
506 |
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3 |
The Visual Arts |
525 |
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4 |
Performance: Song and Music, Dance and Drama |
529 |
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5 |
The Value of the Arts |
532 |
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| 11. The Course of Life |
535 |
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1 |
Childhood |
535 |
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2 |
Naming Patterns |
538 |
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3 |
Love, Sex and Marriage |
547 |
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4 |
Manners |
573 |
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5 |
Medicine and Healing |
588 |
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6 |
Death and the Dead |
591 |
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| 12. Cosmologies |
616 |
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1 |
Time |
616 |
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2 |
The World |
657 |
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3 |
The Chain of Being |
664 |
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4 |
Beings Neither Angelic, Human, nor Animal |
686 |
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| Chronology of Political Events |
693 |
| The Sources |
695 |
| Index of Persons and Places |
707 |
| Index of Subjects |
765 |
