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| List of Illustrations | |
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| List of Maps | |
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| List of Contributors | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The period | |
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| The inhabitants | |
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| The natural environment | |
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| Terrain, soil, and land use | |
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| Woodland and waste | |
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| Climate and weather | |
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| Commerce | |
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| Communications | |
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| Conquest and settlement | |
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| The personnel and dynamics of conquest | |
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| Settlement and institutions | |
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| The fate of native elites | |
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| Kingship, government, and political life to c.1160 | |
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| Kingship | |
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| Government | |
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| Politics | |
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| The culture of politics | |
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| Succession crises and struggles for hegemony | |
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| The politics of the British Isles and northern France | |
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| Social bonds and economic change | |
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| Lordship in 1100 | |
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| Lordship 1100-1280 | |
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| Community in 1100 | |
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| Community 1100-1280 | |
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| Kinship in 1100 | |
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| Kinship 1100-1280 | |
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| The Church and Christian life | |
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| Dioceses | |
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| Parishes, parish churches, and chapels | |
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| Pilgrimages, shrines, and holy wells | |
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| Dissent | |
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| The parish clergy: preaching and teaching | |
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| Monasticism, old and new, hermits, and anchoresses | |
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| Friars | |
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| Poor relief and hospitals | |
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| Bishops | |
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| Papal authority and national and local churches | |
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| Cultural affinities | |
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| Texts and languages, old and new | |
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| New perspectives | |
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| Geoffrey of Monmouth and Arthurian romance | |
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| New cathedrals and new eclecticism | |
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| New audiences for written English and new uses for Arthurian legends | |
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| New schools and universities | |
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| Kingship, government, and political life, c.1160-c.1280 | |
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| Ruling Britain and Ireland: agencies and aspirations | |
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| Henry II, his allies and enemies, 1160-1175 | |
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| Angevin apogee and crisis, 1175-1216 | |
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| Young kings in England and Scotland, 1216-1234 | |
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| Contrasts in kingship, 1234-1258 | |
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| English travails, Welsh opportunity, 1258-1272 | |
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| Kingship and statecraft in the late thirteenth century: the supremacy of Edward I, 1272-1284 | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| English overlordship | |
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| Population change | |
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| Political structures | |
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| Ecclesiastical structures and Christian life | |
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| Social change and adaptable aristocracies | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Chronology | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Map section | |
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| Index | |