479 CHAPTER II MODERN WRITERS $59. GENERAL. The best general accounts of the history of this period will be found in the works mentioned in § 17, especially Pauli, Geschichte von England; Stubbs, Constitutional History; and Pollock and Maitland, English Law. See also Palgrave, English Commonwealth (No. 1496), and the bibliographical lists under the names of kings in the Dictionary of National Biography. Most of the works mentioned in $$ 59-63 deal mainly with political history. Supplementary material concerning political affairs will be found in § 65, parliament; § 68, army and navy; and $ 70, the church. 2802. BOUTMY, EMILE. Le développement de la constitution et de la société politique en Angleterre. Paris, 1887; new edition, 1897. Translated by I. M. Eaden: The English constitution. London, etc., 1891. A good brief comparison of the constitutional history of England and France. 2803. GAILLARD, G. H. Histoire de la rivalité de la France et de l'Angleterre. 11 vols. Paris, 1771-77. Another edition, 6 vols. 1818. 2804. NYS, ERNEST. Notes pour servir à l'histoire du droit international en Angleterre. Pt. i. Brussels, 1888. 2805. PAULI, REINHOLD. Bilder aus Alt-England. Gotha, 1860; 2nd edition, 1876. Translated by E. C. Otté: Pictures of old England. Cambridge, etc., 1861. II. Die Politik Wilhelms des Eroberers. IV. Englands älteste Beziehungen zu V. Ludwig IV. und Eduard III. VIII. John Wiclif. IX. Heinrich V. und König Sigismund. XI. Herzog Humfrid von Gloucester. 2806. STUBBS, WILLIAM. The early Plantagenets [1135-1327] London, 1876. 5th edition, 1886. A good short account. 2807. WYCKOFF, C. T. Feudal relations between the kings of England and Scotland under the early Plantagenets [to 1290]. Chicago, 1897. For the relations of England to Scotland, see also E. W. Robertson, Scotland under her Early Kings, 2 vols., Edinburgh, 1862; J. H. Burton, History of Scotland, 7 vols., Edinburgh, 1867-70 (2nd edition, 8 vols., 1873; new edition, 8 vols., 1897); and P. H. Brown, History of Scotland, vol. i., Cambridge, 1899. $ 60. WILLIAM I.-RICHARD I. (1066–1199). Freeman (Nos. 2812-13) gives the fullest account of the reigns of William I. and William II. On the results of the Norman Conquest, see also Stubbs, Constitutional History; Pollock and Maitland, English Law; Liebermann, Leges Edwardi; Maitland, Domesday Book; and Round, Feudal England: Nos. 643, 657, 1405, 1493, 2827. The battle of Hastings is dealt with below, § 68; and Domesday Book, above, § 50 a. Round's Geoffrey de Mandeville and the preface to vol. iii. of Howlett's Chronicles of Stephen, Henry II., and Richard I. (Nos. 1667, 2828) are valuable for the reign of Stephen. The excellent survey of the reigns of Henry II. and Richard I. in Stubbs's Constitutional History is supplemented by his editions of Benedict of Peterborough, vol. ii. preface (Henry II.), and Roger of Hoveden, vols. iii.-iv. prefaces (Richard I.); and by Miss Norgate's work (No. 2822). Round's Commune of London (No. 1018) contains a chapter on the coronation of Richard I. For the investiture struggle, the conflict between Becket and Henry II., and biographies of Lanfranc, Anselm, Longchamp, etc., see § 70 c. 2808. AMIRA, KARL VON. Anfänge des normannischen Rechts. Sybel's Hist. Zeitschrift, xxxix. 241-68. Munich, 1878. A review of Steenstrup's Normannerne (No. 1535), vol. i. There is a good brief sketch of Norman law in Pollock and Maitland's English Law, bk. i. ch. iii.; and a fuller account in Brunner's Schwurgerichte (No. 686), especially chs. vii.ix. 2809. CARTELLIERI, ALEXANder. Die Machtstellung Heinrichs II. von England. Neue Heidelberger Jahrbücher, viii. 269–83. Heidelberg, 1898. Considers chiefly his influence in continental affairs. 2810. COBBE, THOMAS. History of the Norman kings of England. London, 1869. 2811. EYTON, R. W. Court, household, and itinerary of Henry II. London, 1878. Valuable. An itinerary of Henry II. will also be found in Stubbs's edition of Benedict of Peterborough, 1867, vol. ii. pp. cxxix.-cxlviii. 2812. *FREEMAN, E. A. vols. Oxford, 1867-79; 2nd edition of vols. i-ii., 1877. History of the Norman conquest. 6 edition of vols. i.-iv., 1870-76; 3rd Vol. i. Anglo-Saxon history; history of Normandy, 10th century. Vols. ii.-iii. Reigns of Edward the Confessor and Harold. Vol. iv. William the Conqueror (ecclesiastical settlement, etc.). Vol. v. Effects of the Conquest (with two long chapters on the reigns of Henry I. and Stephen, and a brief account of English history, 11541272). Vol. vi. Index. This work has superseded Augustin Thierry's Conquête de l'Angleterre, 3 vols., Paris, 1825; 3rd edition, 4 vols., 1830. 2813. Henry I. Valuable. The reign of William Rufus and the accession of 2 vols. Oxford, 1882. 2814. - William the Conqueror. London, etc., 1888. 2815. GREEN, Mrs. J. R. Henry II. London, etc., 1888; reprinted, 1889 and 1892. A good short account. 2816. GRUHN, ALBERT. Der Kreuzzug Richards I. Berlin, [1892]. pp. 47. 2817. HALL, HUBERT. Court life under the Plantagenets [temp. Henry II.] London, etc., 1890. Deals with the royal household, council, court, exchequer, etc. Valuable. 2818. KINDT, A. R. Gründe der Gefangenschaft Richards I. Halle, 1892. pp. 54. 2819. KNELLER, K. A. Des Richard Löwenherz deutsche Gefangenschaft, 1192-94. Freiburg, 1893. On this subject, see also Hermann Bloch, Forschungen zur Politik Heinrichs VI. (Berlin, 1892), 54-79, 100-105. 2820. LYTTELTON, GEORGE. The history of the life of Henry II. 2 vols. and a volume of notes. London, 1767; 3rd edition, 4 vols., 1769. — Vol. iii., 1771; 2nd edition, 2 vols., 1772-73. The most elaborate account of Henry II.'s reign. Useful, but in large part obsolete. 2821. MORGAN, J. F. England under the Norman occupation. London, etc., 1858. A valuable little work, containing the results of a careful perusal of Domesday Book. 2822. *NORGATE, KATE. England under the Angevin kings. 2 vols. London, 1887. Covers the period 1100-1206, devoting particular attention to the reigns of Henry II. and Richard I. 2823. PALGRAVE, FRANCIS. History of Normandy and England [to 1101]. 4 vols. London, 1851-64. 2824. PHILLIPS, GEORGE. Englische Reichs- und Rechtsgeschichte [1066-1189]. 2 vols. Berlin, 1827-28. Vol. ii. contains the full text of Glanvill's law-book. 2825. PUYMAIGRE [T. J. DE BOUDET DE]. Blondel. 1876. La légende de Revue des Questions Historiques, [xix.] 130-55. Paris, Relates to the captivity of Richard I. 2826. RÖSSLER, Oskar. Kaiserin Mathilde und das Zeitalter der Anarchie in England. Berlin, 1897. Challenges the accepted theory of the elective character of the crown after the Norman Conquest. Valuable. 2827. *ROUND, J. H. Feudal England: historical studies of the xith and xiith centuries. London, 1895. The author believes that knight service was not gradually evolved after 1066 out of the Anglo-Saxon obligation to provide one armed man for every five hides, but was introduced de novo by the Conqueror; that 'the assessment of knight service was based on a five knights unit, irrespective of area or value'; and 'that the feudal element introduced at the Conquest had a greater influence on our national institutions than recent historians admit.' He contends that the English defence at Hastings consisted not of palisades, but of a shield wall. 2828. *Round, J. H. anarchy [reign of Stephen]. Geoffrey de Mandeville: a study of the The author regards the career of Geoffrey as the most perfect and typical presentment of the feudal and anarchic spirit that stamps the reign of Stephen.' The book throws fresh light on the title of the English crown, the origin and character of earldoms, the development of the fiscal system, the early administration of London, etc. § 61. THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY (1199–1307). Pauli and Stubbs (Nos. 633, 643) are the best general authorities on the history of this century. For the reign of John, see also Nos. 2822, 3081; and Stubbs's edition of Walter of Coventry, vol. ii. preface. The literature relating to the Great Charter is examined in $51b. The best biographies of Simon de Montfort are those of Bémont and Prothero (Nos. 2830, 2841). Blaauw (No. 2831) gives a good account of Henry III.'s struggle with the barons. Good short accounts of Edward I.'s relations to Scotland will be found in J. H. Burton's History of Scotland, 2nd edition, Edinburgh, 1873, ch. xviii.; E. A. Freeman's Historical Essays, London, 1871, pp. 53-78; and, to 1290, in Wyckoff's treatise (No. 2807). For parliamentary history during the thirteenth century, see § 65; and for biographies of Langton, Grosseteste, Rich, and other prelates, § 70 c. 2829. BEMONT, CHARLES. De la condamnation de Jean Sansterre par la cour des pairs de France en 1202. Revue Historique, xxxii. 33-72, 290-311. Paris, 1886. Believes that there was no second trial of John by the peers of France; contends that he was condemned in 1202 on the complaint of the counts of la Marche and d'Eu, but not in 1203 for the murder of Arthur. See No. 2833. 2830. Simon de Montfort, comte de Leicester. Paris, 1884. The fullest account of his life. 2831. BLAAUW, W. H. The barons' war [temp. Henry III.]. London, etc., 1844. 2nd edition, Cambridge, 1871. Valuable. 2832. GEBAUER, G. C. Leben und Thaten Herrn Richards von Cornwall und Poitou. Leipsic, 1744. The most detailed biography of Richard of Cornwall. See No. 2836. |