The History of the Norman Conquest of England: The preliminary history to the election of Eadward the Confessor. 1867Clarendon Press, 1877 - Great Britain |
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Common terms and phrases
Ælfred Æthelstan ancient Anglorum Appendix assembly battle Bishop Bretwalda Britain Cæsar Celtic century CHAP character Charles charter Christian Chron Chronicles Cnut Cnut's connexion conquerors crown Danes Danish death Denmark Dipl dominion doubt duchy Dudo Duke Eadgar Eadmund Eadric Eadward Eadwig Ealdorman Earl East-Anglia Ecgberht election Elfred Emma Emperor Empire enemy England English Ethelred father feudal Flod Flodoard Florence folkland French Gaul Gemót Godwine grant Harold Harthacnut heathen Henry Henry of Huntingdon homage Hugh Imperial invaders invasion island King kingdom land Laon later laws Lewis lord Lothian marriage Mercia nation Norman Conquest Normandy Northmen Northumberland Northumbrian Olaf Otto over-lord Palgrave Paris Pertz princes ravaged regis reign Richard Richer Rolf Roman Rouen royal Saint Saxon Scotland Scots Scottish seems settlement shires story supremacy Swegen Teutonic Thegns Thurkill tion vassal Welsh Wessex West-Saxon whole William of Malmesbury Witan word writers Wulfnoth
Popular passages
Page 557 - Where by divers sundry old authentic histories and chronicles it is manifestly declared and expressed that this realm of England is an empire, and so hath been accepted in the world, governed by one Supreme Head and King having the dignity and royal estate of the imperial Crown of the same...
Page 461 - For in the hand of the Lord there is a cup, and the wine is red : it is full mixed, and he poureth out of the same.
Page 149 - In a word, the indomitable vigour of the Scandinavian, joined to the buoyant vivacity of the Gaul, produced the conquering and ruling race of Europe.
Page 55 - West-Saxon king is an event so important for the history of the next four ^hundred years, and it is an event which is often so completely misunderstood, that I must reserve some consideration of its exact bearing for my next chapter. It is enough to say here that, from this time to the fourteenth century, the vassalage of Scotland was an essential part of the public law of the Isle of Britain.
Page 583 - Cum bellum civitas aut illatum defendit aut infert, magistratus, qui ei bello praesint ut vitae necisque habeant potestatem, deliguntur. In pace nullus est communis magistratus, sed principes» regionum atque pagorum inter suos ius dicunt controversiasque minuunt.
Page 101 - No theory that I know of will explain all these phenomena except that which I have just tried to draw out. This is, that every freeman had an abstract right to be present, but that any actual participation in the proceedings of the assembly had, gradually and imperceptibly, come to be confined to the leading men, to the king's thegns, strengthened, under peculiarly favourable circumstances, by the presence of exceptional classes of freemen, like the London citizens.
Page 17 - ... fathers. The nature of the small Celtic element in our language would of itself prove the fact. Nearly every Welsh word which has found its way into English expresses some small domestic matter, such as women and slaves would be concerned with; nearly all the words belonging to the nobler occupations, all the terms of government and war, and nearly all the terms of agriculture, are thoroughly Teutonic. In short, everywhere but in Britain an intruding nation sat down by the side of an elder nation,...
Page 591 - Noverint tamen iidem Hispani sibi licentiam a nobis esse concessam, ut se in vassaticum comitibus nostris more solito commendent.
Page 48 - I threw aside, with my wise-men's thought, and on otherwise bade to hold them. For why, I durst not risk of my own much in writ to set, for why, it to me unknown was what of them would like those that after us were. But that which I met, either in Ine's...
Page 76 - In the very earliest glimpses," says Mr. Freeman, "of Teutonic political life, we find the monarchic, the aristocratic, and the democratic elements already clearly marked. There are leaders with or without the royal title, — there are men of noble birth, whose noble birth (in whatever the original nobility may have consisted) entitles them to a pre-eminence in every way ; but beyond these there is a free and armed people, in whom it is clear that the ultimate sovereignty resides. Small matters...