The Welding of the Race ("449"-1066)

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Various. The Welding of the Race ("449"-1066)

The Welding of the Race ("449"-1066)

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THE COMING OF THE ENGLISH (“449”)

1. Contemporary Evidence

2. Later Evidence

(i.) A Briton’s Account

(ii.) The English Tradition—(a) Bede

(b) The Wessex Account

THE MISSION OF AUGUSTINE (597)

ETHELBERT’S DOOMS (circa 600)

POPE GREGORY’S LETTER TO AUGUSTINE ON THE ORGANISATION OF THE CHURCH (601)

AUGUSTINE’S ATTEMPT TO UNITE THE ROMAN AND THE CELTIC CHURCHES (603)

PAULINUS AND EDWIN (625)

EDWIN OF NORTHUMBRIA HOLDS A CONFERENCE, AT WHICH IT IS AGREED TO DESTROY THE IDOLS AND EMBRACE CHRISTIANITY (627)

THE CHARACTER OF BISHOP AIDAN (635)

OSWIN OF NORTHUMBRIA AND AIDAN (642)

THE SYNOD OF WHITBY (664)

ABBOT BENEDICT BISCOP’S ZEAL FOR RELIGIOUS ART (664 ONWARDS)

THE SYNOD OF HERTFORD (673)

THEODORE AND WILFRID (678)

THE STORY OF CÆDMON (680)

WILFRID CONVERTS THE SOUTH SAXONS (681)

ST. CUTHBERT: (1) AS ABBOT, (2) AS ANCHORITE (DIED A.D. 687)

THE DOOMS OF INE (BETWEEN 688 AND 705)

CEOLFRID, ABBOT OF JARROW (DIED 716)

A RIDDLE OF CYNEWULF (BORN BETWEEN 720 AND 730)

POPE GREGORY II. COMMENDS BONIFACE (December 1, 722)

THE STATE OF ENGLAND IN 731

BEDE’S ACCOUNT OF HIMSELF, HIS HISTORICAL AUTHORITIES AND METHODS (731)

A

B

THE FAITHFUL THEGNS (786)

THE COMING OF THE DANES (787–870)

A LETTER FROM CHARLES THE GREAT TO OFFA (796)

THE BRETWALDAS (827)

ALFRED AND THE DANES (871–878)

ALFRED AND GUTHRUM’S PEACE (c. 885)

ALFRED’S DOOMS

OHTHERE’S VOYAGE OF EXPLORATION, TOLD TO KING ALFRED

EDWARD’S POLICY (907–925)

ATHELSTAN’S DOOM CONCERNING HOT IRON AND WATER (925–940)

THE BATTLE OF BRUNANBURH (937)

A LAND BOC (940)

DUNSTAN IS MADE ABBOT OF GLASTONBURY BY KING EDMUND (946)

EDGAR’S CORONATION (WHITSUN DAY, 973)

THE MURDER OF KING EDWARD AT CORFE (March 18, 978)

THE REDELESS KING AND THE DANES (980–1002)

THE BATTLE OF MALDON (991)

COUNTRY LIFE AT THE END OF THE TENTH CENTURY

The Ploughman

The Shepherd

The Oxherd

The Huntsman

The Fisherman

The Fowler

The Trader

The Shoemaker

The Rest

The Pupil

EDMUND AND CANUTE (1016)

PEOPLE’S DUTIES AND RIGHTS IN THE TIME OF CANUTE (c. 1025)

CANUTE’S LETTER FROM ROME (1027)

RANKS AMONG THE ENGLISH (BETWEEN 1029 AND 1060)

SAXON AND NORMAN (1051)

CHARACTERISTICS OF THE ENGLISH BEFORE THE CONQUEST

A NORMAN ACCOUNT OF THE BATTLE OF HASTINGS (1066)

THE LAST OF THE NORTHMEN AND OF THE ENGLISH (1066)

NOTE ON THE CHIEF AUTHORITIES