1493. *MAITLAND, F. W. Domesday book and beyond: three essays on the early history of England. Cambridge, 1897. I. Domesday Book. II. England before the Conquest. III. The hide. Throws much light on the early history of the manor, on feudalism, classes of society, land tenures, Domesday Book, etc. Advances strong arguments against Seebohm's theory (below, § 44). Presents a new theory regarding the origin of boroughs, and shows that the hide contained 120 acres. See English Hist. Review, 1897, xii. 768–77; 1900, xv. 293–302; F. Baring, The Hidation of some Southern Counties, ibid., 1899, xiv. 290-99. 1494. *MAURER, KONRAD. Angelsächsische Rechtsverhältnisse. Kritische Ueberschau der Deutschen Gesetzgebung, i. 47-120, 405-31; ii. 30-68, 388-440; iii. 26-61. Munich, 1853-56. Deals with the family, mark, hundred, tithing, shire, mutual suretyship, landlaws, classes of society, feud, and wergeld. Corrects many of Kemble's errors. 1495. OWEN, T. M. A history of England and Wales, from the Roman to the Norman conquest, London, etc., [1882]. 2nd edition, [1882]. A brief account. 1496. *PALGRAVE, FRANCIS. The rise and progress of the English commonwealth: Anglo-Saxon period. 2 pts. London, 1832. Lays stress on the development of legal institutions. Badly arranged and discursive. Palgrave also wrote a popular account of the same subject, entitled History of England, Anglo-Saxon Period (London, 1831; new editions, History of Anglo-Saxons, 1867, 1869, 1876, 1887, etc.); and an essay on the materials of Anglo-Saxon history, in Quarterly Review, 1826, xxxiv. 248-98. 1497. PHILLIPS, GEORGE. Versuch einer Darstellung des angelsächsischen Rechts. Göttingen, 1825. The earliest attempt to deal critically with this subject. The book is now in large part antiquated. 1498. POLLOCK, FREDERICK. English law before the Norman conquest. Law Quarterly Review, xiv. 291-306. London, 1898. Reprinted in Bowker's Alfred the Great (No. 1520), 207-39. 1499. ROBERTSON, E. W. The hide, 92-102. The shire, 112–33. The king's kin, 177-89. Historical essays. Edinburgh, 1872. Dunstan, 189-203. Edgar's coronation, 203–15. 1500. SEARLE, W. G. Anglo-Saxon bishops, kings, and nobles: the succession of the bishops and the pedigrees of the kings and nobles. Cambridge, 1899. Valuable. 1501. STEARNS, J. M. The germs and developments of the laws of England. New York, etc., 1889. Consists in large part of a reprint of Thorpe's translation of the AngloSaxon laws (No. 1393), with brief notes; contains also a translation of the Laws of Edward the Confessor and of Magna Carta. 1502. TURNER, SHARON. History of the Anglo-Saxons. 4 vols. London, 1799-1805. 7th edition, 3 vols., 1852. Vol. iv. of the 1st edition (vol. iii. of the 7th) deals with manners, institutions, literature, etc. The account of King Alfred in bk. v. is still valuable. 1503. WINKELMANN, EDUARD. Geschichte der Angelsachsen bis zum Tode König Ælfreds. Berlin, 1883. 1504. ZÉzas, S. G. terre jusqu'au xii. siècle. Essai historique sur la législation d'Angle- A digest of the Anglo-Saxon laws under a few main heads. Of little value. $ 41. FROM THE CONQUEST TO EGBERT'S SUPREMACY. The best works are Guest's and Green's (Nos. 1263, 1510). See also No. 1247. 1505. BABCOCK, W. H. The two lost centuries [the fifth and sixth] of Britain. Philadelphia, 1890. 1506. ERDMANN, AXEL. Ueber die Heimat und den Namen. der Angeln. Upsala, 1890. Some writers believe that the Angles who invaded England came from the region of the middle Elbe and the Saale; but most writers, including Erdmann and Weiland (No. 1519), maintain that they came from Sleswick. 1507. FREEMAN, E. A. Four Oxford lectures. London, etc., 1888. Teutonic conquest in Gaul and Britain, 61-112. Assails the theories of Celtic and Roman origins of English institutions. 1508. King Ine. King Ine. Somersetsh. Archaeol. and Nat. Hist. Soc., Proceedings, xviii. pt. ii. 1-59, xx. pt. ii. 1-57. Taunton, 1874-75. 1509. GAUPP, E. T. Die germanischen Ansiedlungen. Breslau, 1844. Anglo-Saxons, 538-50. 1510. *GREEN, J. R. The making of England [A.D. 449-829]. London, 1881; reprinted, 2 vols., 1897. 15II. HAIGH, D. H. The conquest of Britain by the Saxons. London, 1861. 1512. HEINSCH, JOSEPH. Die Reiche der Angelsachsen zur Zeit Karls des Grossen. Breslau, 1875. pp. 105. Deals mainly with Mercia and Northumbria in the 8th century. 1513. HORTON-SMITH, R. J. The cranial characteristics of the south Saxons. Anthropological Institute, Journal, xxvi. 82-102. London, 1897. 1514. JELLINGHAUS, HERMANN. Englische und niederdeutsche Ortsnamen. Anglia, xx. 257-334. Halle, 1898. Tries to show that the Angles who invaded England came mainly from the upper Weser. 1515. LA BORDerie, Arthur de. Les Bretons insulaires et les Anglo-Saxons du ve au viie siècle. Paris, 1873. Deals with the migration of Celts of Britain to Armorica during the period of the Germanic conquest of Britain. See also Bède Plaine, La Colonisation de l'Armorique par les Bretons Insulaires, Paris, 1899. 1516. POSTE, BEALE. Britannia antiqua. London, 1857. Chs. i.-ii. Asser, Gildas, Nennius. Chs. iii.-iv. British history in the 6th century. Chs. x.-xii. Roman Britain. 1517. SCHAUMANN, A. F. H. Zur Geschichte der Eroberung Englands durch germanische Stämme. Göttingen, 1845. pp. 49. Contends that Saxons from the Litus Saxonicum in Gaul took a prominent part in the conquest of Britain. 1518. VARIN, [P. J.?] Etudes relatives à l'état politique et religieux des îles britanniques au moment de l'invasion saxonne [A.D. 411-731]. Académie des Inscriptions, Mémoires, 1st series, v. 1-270. Paris, 1857. 1519. WEILAND, LUDWIG. Die Angeln. Tübingen, 1889. pp. 40. Maintains that the Angles came from Sleswick, and that the Germans who settled in Kent were not Jutes but that they came from the region of the lower Weser. § 42. FROM EGBERT TO 1066. The best authorities are Green, Steenstrup, and Freeman, Norman Conquest (No. 2812), vols. i.-iii. For the life of King Alfred there is still no better work than Turner's History of the Anglo-Saxons (No. 1502). 1520. Alfred the Great: chapters on his life and times. By Frederic Harrison, Charles Oman, [John] Earle, Frederick Pollock, etc., ed. Alfred Bowker. London, 1899. 1521. ALLEN, JOHN. Eadwig. London, 1849. Inquiry into the life and eharacter of King Appended to his work on the royal prerogative (No. 661). 1522. BIRCH, W. DE GRAY. Early notices of the Danes in England to 937. British Archæol. Assoc., Journal, xliv. 326-42. London, 1888. 1523. BOIVIN-CHAMPEAUX, LOUIS. La reine Emma. Rouen, 1885. pp. 39. 1523 a. CONYBEARE, EDWARD. Alfred in the chroniclers. London, 1900. 1524. FERGUSON, ROBERT. The Northmen in Cumberland and Westmoreland. London, etc., 1856. An attempt to present in popular form the leading facts contained in Worsaae's Danes and Norwegians in England (No. 1539). 1525. GILES, J. A. Life and times of Alfred the Great. London, 1848. 2nd edition, 1854. 1526. *GREEN, J. R. The conquest of England [A.D. 829-1071]. London, 1883; reprinted, 2 vols., 1899. 1527. HOLDERNESS, THOMAS. The battle of Brunanburh: an attempt to identify the site. Driffield, etc., 1888. pp. 55. 1528. KEARY, C. F. The vikings in western Christendom, 789888. London, 1891. Ch. xii. deals with England. 1529. LIEBERMANN, FELIX. Zur Geschichte Byrhtnoths, des Helden von Maldon. Archiv für das Studium der Neueren Sprachen, etc., ci. 15-28. Brunswick, 1898. 1530. MACKINLAY, J. B. St. Edmund, king and martyr: a history of his life and times. London, etc., 1893. 1531. MUNCH, P. A. Det norske Folks Historie. 6 pts. in 8 vols. Christiania, 1852-63. Vols. i.-iii. contain much information concerning the Danes in England and Ireland. 1532. PAULI, REINHOLD. König Ælfred und seine Stellung in der Geschichte Englands. Berlin, 1851.- Translated by Thomas Wright Life of King Alfred. London, 1852. - Translated by Benjamin Thorpe : Life of Alfred the Great. London, 1853. 1533. SMITH, GOLDWIN. Lectures and essays. Toronto, 1881. Alfredus rex fundator, 267-85. 1534. SPELMAN, JOHN. Ælfredi Magni vita. Oxford, 1678.English version: Life of Alfred the Great. Oxford, 1709. The English version is Spelman's work. The Latin translation was made by Christopher Wase. Normannerne. 1535. STEENSTRUP, J. C. H. R. 4 vols. Copenhagen, 1876-82.- Vol. i. translated by E. de Beaurepaire : Etudes pour servir à l'histoire des Normands. Caen, 1880. Vol. i. Introduction to Norman times. Vol. ii. Expeditions of vikings in the 9th century. Vol. iii. Their kingdoms in the British isles in the 10th and 11th centuries. Vol. iv. Danelag': Danish institutions in England and their influence; a study in comparative legal history. 1536. STREATFEILD, G. S. Lincolnshire and the Danes. London, 1884. 1537. Whole works of King Alfred the Great, with preliminary essays illustrative of the history, arts, and manners of the ninth century. 3 vols. in 2. Oxford, etc., 1852-53; reprinted, London, 1858. Contains the following and several other brief essays :— The age of Alfred, by T. Forester, i. 255-325. The Danes, by C. Hook, i. 337-78. Traces of Danes in England, by T. |