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The Welding of the Race ("449"-1066)

The Welding of the Race ("449"-1066)

by John Eyre Winstanley Wallis

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Editor
Winbolt, S. E. (Samuel Edward), 1868-1944
Credits
Produced by Lisa Anne Hatfield and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
Language
English
LoC Class
DA: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Great Britain, Ireland, Central Europe
Subject
Great Britain -- History -- Anglo-Saxon period, 449-1066 -- Sources
Category
Text
Project Gutenberg
eBook-No. 51253
Release Date
February 20, 2016
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.Untitled
  2. 2.INTRODUCTION — NOTE TO THIS VOLUME
  3. 3.TABLE OF CONTENTS
  4. 4.THE COMING OF THE ENGLISH (“449”). — 1. Contemporary Evidence. — 2. Later Evidence. — (i.) A Briton’s Account. — 6 (ii.) The English Tradition —( a ) Bede . — ( b ) The Wessex Account .
  5. 5.THE MISSION OF AUGUSTINE (597).
  6. 6.ETHELBERT’S DOOMS ( circa 600 ).
  7. 7.POPE GREGORY’S LETTER TO AUGUSTINE ON THE ORGANISATION OF THE CHURCH (601).
  8. 8.AUGUSTINE’S ATTEMPT TO UNITE THE ROMAN AND THE CELTIC CHURCHES (603).
  9. 9.PAULINUS AND EDWIN (625).
  10. 10.EDWIN OF NORTHUMBRIA HOLDS A CONFERENCE, AT WHICH IT IS AGREED TO DESTROY THE IDOLS AND EMBRACE CHRISTIANITY (627).
  11. 11.THE CHARACTER OF BISHOP AIDAN (635).
  12. 12.OSWIN OF NORTHUMBRIA AND AIDAN (642).
  13. 13.THE SYNOD OF WHITBY (664).
  14. 14.ABBOT BENEDICT BISCOP’S ZEAL FOR RELIGIOUS ART ( 664 ONWARDS ).
  15. 15.THE SYNOD OF HERTFORD (673).
  16. 16.THEODORE AND WILFRID (678).
  17. 17.THE STORY OF CÆDMON (680).
  18. 18.WILFRID CONVERTS THE SOUTH SAXONS (681).
  19. 19.ST. CUTHBERT: (1) AS ABBOT, (2) AS ANCHORITE ( DIED A.D. 687 ).
  20. 20.THE DOOMS OF INE ( BETWEEN 688 AND 705 ).
  21. 21.CEOLFRID, ABBOT OF JARROW ( DIED 716 ).
  22. 22.A RIDDLE OF CYNEWULF ( BORN BETWEEN 720 AND 730 ).
  23. 23.POPE GREGORY II. COMMENDS BONIFACE ( December 1, 722 ).
  24. 24.THE STATE OF ENGLAND IN 731.
  25. 25.BEDE’S ACCOUNT OF HIMSELF, HIS HISTORICAL AUTHORITIES AND METHODS (731). — A. — B.
  26. 26.THE FAITHFUL THEGNS (786).
  27. 27.THE COMING OF THE DANES (787-870)
  28. 28.A LETTER FROM CHARLES THE GREAT TO OFFA (796).
  29. 29.THE BRETWALDAS (827).
  30. 30.ALFRED AND THE DANES (871-878).
  31. 31.ALFRED AND GUTHRUM’S PEACE ( c. 885)
  32. 32.ALFRED’S DOOMS.
  33. 33.OHTHERE’S VOYAGE OF EXPLORATION, TOLD TO KING ALFRED.
  34. 34.EDWARD’S POLICY (907-925).
  35. 35.ATHELSTAN’S DOOM CONCERNING HOT IRON AND WATER (925-940).
  36. 36.THE BATTLE OF BRUNANBURH (937).
  37. 37.A LAND BOC (940).
  38. 38.DUNSTAN IS MADE ABBOT OF GLASTONBURY BY KING EDMUND (946).
  39. 39.EDGAR’S CORONATION (WHITSUN DAY, 973).
  40. 40.THE MURDER OF KING EDWARD AT CORFE ( March 18, 978 ).
  41. 41.THE REDELESS KING AND THE DANES (980-1002).
  42. 42.THE BATTLE OF MALDON (991).
  43. 43.COUNTRY LIFE AT THE END OF THE TENTH CENTURY. — The Ploughman. — The Shepherd. — The Oxherd. — The Huntsman. — The Fisherman. — The Fowler. — The Trader. — The Shoemaker. — The Rest. — The Pupil.
  44. 44.EDMUND AND CANUTE (1016).
  45. 45.PEOPLE’S DUTIES AND RIGHTS IN THE TIME OF CANUTE (c. 1025).
  46. 46.CANUTE’S LETTER FROM ROME (1027).
  47. 47.RANKS AMONG THE ENGLISH ( BETWEEN 1029 AND 1060 ).
  48. 48.SAXON AND NORMAN (1051).
  49. 49.CHARACTERISTICS OF THE ENGLISH BEFORE THE CONQUEST.
  50. 50.A NORMAN ACCOUNT OF THE BATTLE OF HASTINGS (1066).
  51. 51.THE LAST OF THE NORTHMEN AND OF THE ENGLISH (1066).
  52. 52.NOTE ON THE CHIEF AUTHORITIES.
  53. 53.Transcriber’s Notes

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