Origins of English Feudalism

In: Routledge Library Editions: the Medieval World Ser. v.7

Abstract

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- GENERAL INTRODUCTION -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- I: Introductory -- II: Frankish Feudalism -- III: Pre-Conquest England -- 1. Absence of knights -- 2. Absence of vassalic commendation -- 3. Absence of the fief -- 4. Absence of native castles -- IV: Anglo-Norman feudalism a Norman innovation -- DOCUMENTS -- NOTE -- A Literary and narrative sources -- 1. Tacitus, Germania, cc. 13-14 -- 2. Annales Regni Francorum, ed. Kurze, pp. 14, 16 -- 3. Richer, Histoire de France, ed. Latouche, i, 104 -- 4. Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, C(D, E), s.a. 1016 -- 5. The same, D, s.a. 1051 -- 6. The same, E, s.a. 1051 -- 7. The same, E, s.a. 1052 -- 8. The same, C, s.a. 1055 -- 9. The same, D, s.a. 1066 -- 10. The same, E, s.a. 1066 -- 11. The same, D, s.a. 1066 [1067] -- 12. The same, D, s.a. 1074 -- 13. The same, E, s.a. 1086 -- 14. The same, E, s.a. 1087 -- 15. Florence of Worcester, ed. Thorpe, i, 205-6 -- 16. The same, i, 210 -- 17. The same, i, 213 -- 18. The Song of Maldon -- 19. Snorre Sturlason's account of the Battle of Stamford Bridge -- 20. Gilbert Crispin's Life of Herluin, ed. Armitage Robinson, pp. 87-91 -- 21. William of Jumièges, ed. Marx, pp. 115-16 -- 22. The same, p. 123 -- 23. The same, p. 134 -- 24. William of Poitiers, ed. Foreville, pp. 14-20 -- 25. The same, concerning Harold's oath -- 26. The same, p. 168 -- 27. The same: account of the battle of Hastings -- 28. The same, pp. 210-12 -- 29. The same, p. 216 -- 30. The same, p. 238 -- 31. Ordericus Vitalis, The Ecclesiastical History, ed. Chibnall, ii, 218 -- 32. The same, pp. 260-6 -- 33. William of Malmesbury, Gesta Pontificum Anglorum, ed. Hamilton, p. 253 -- 34. The same, p. 281 -- 35. William of Malmesbury, The Life of Wulfstan, ed. Darlington, pp. 46-7.