| 1248–58. | Characteristics of the history of these ten years. | 69 |
| | Decay of Henry's power in Gascony. | 69 |
| 1248–52. | Simon de Montfort, seneschal of Gascony. | 70 |
| Aug., 1253. | Henry III. in Gascony. | 72 |
| 1254. | Marriage and establishment of Edward the king's son. | 73 |
| | Edward's position in Gascony. | 73 |
| | Edward's position in Cheshire. | 74 |
| 1254. | Llewelyn ap Griffith sole Prince of North Wales. | 75 |
| | Edward in the four cantreds and in West Wales. | 76 |
| 1257. | Welsh campaign of Henry and Edward. | 76 |
| | Revival of the baronial opposition. | 77 |
| 1255. | Candidature of Edmund, the king's son, for Sicily. | 78 |
| 1257. | Richard of Cornwall elected and crowned King of the Romans. | 80 |
| | Leicester as leader of the opposition. | 81 |
| | Progress in the age of Henry III. | 81 |
| | The cosmopolitan and the national ideals. | 82 |
| | French influence. | 83 |
| | The coming of the friars. | 84 |
| 1221. | Gilbert of Freynet and the first Dominicans in England. | 84 |
| 1224. | Arrival of Agnellus of Pisa and the first Franciscans in England. | 84 |
| | Other mendicant orders in England. | 85 |
| | The influence of the friars. | 86 |
| | The universities. | 88 |
| | Prominent English schoolmen. | 89 |
| | Paris and Oxford. | 90 |
| | The mendicants at Oxford. | 91 |
| | Roger Bacon and Duns Scotus. | 92 |
| | Academic influence in public life. | 92 |
| | Beginnings of colleges. | 93 |
| | Intellectual characteristics of thirteenth century. | 93 |
| | Literature in Latin and French. | 94 |
| | Literature in English. | 95 |
| | Art. | 90 |
| | Gothic architecture. | 90 |
| | The towns and trade. | 90 |
