The Saxon and Norman Kings,9780631231318

The Saxon and Norman Kings

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Edition: 3rd
ISBN13: 9780631231318
ISBN10: 0631231315
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2001-11-28
Publisher(s): Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary

This classic exploration of the history of English kings and kingship from the sixth to the twelfth century has now been brought up-to-date for a new generation of readers.

Author Biography

Christopher Brooke is Dixie Professor Emeritus of Ecclesiastical History at the University of Cambridge and a Life Fellow of Gonville and Caius College. His numerous previous publications include From Alfred to Henry III, 871-1272 (1961), Europe in the Central Middle Ages (Third Edition, 2000), The Twelfth Century Renaissance (1969), The Structure of Medieval Society (1971), The Monastic World 1000-1300 (with Wim Swaan, 1974) and The Medieval Idea of Marriage (1989).

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
ix
Preface to the Third Edition x
Preface to the 1963 Edition (Abbreviated) xii
Prologue
1(12)
From 1963 to 2001
1(7)
The English People and the English Kings
8(5)
The Method of this Inquiry
13(8)
On King-making
21(23)
The Occupations of a King
44(18)
Queens
62(11)
Origins
73(9)
The Small Kingdoms
82(13)
Interlude: 670-871
95(4)
Alfred
99(11)
The Tenth Century
110(14)
Cnut and Edward the Confessor
124(7)
The Conqueror and the Conquest
131(12)
The Conqueror's Sons
143(17)
Stephen
160(10)
Epilogue
170(4)
Bibliography 174(7)
Genealogical Tables 181(5)
Index 186

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