Evaluating and Interpreting Primary Documents
Chronology of British History, 500–1500
DOCUMENTS OF MEDIEVAL ENGLAND, SCOTLAND, IRELAND, AND WALES
Domestic Life and the Medieval Household
2.Account Rolls and Domestic Activity
3.Information on Domestic Life from Coroners’ Rolls
4.Household Goods Described in Later Medieval Wills
7.Welsh Hospitality (Twelfth Century)
Education and Professional Training
8.The Education of an Anglo-Saxon Prince: Asser, Life of Alfred (ca. 890)
9.The Education of a Scottish Monk: The Life of St. Kentigern (fl. Late Sixth Century)
10.The Education of a Knight: William Marshal (ca. 1144–1219)
11.Learning to Manage Estates and Manors: The “Rules of Saint Robert” (Thirteenth Century)
12.Educating the Gentry and the Urban Elites
13.An Anglo-Saxon Marriage Contract
14.Early Accounting Methods in the Twelfth Century: The Pipe Rolls
15.Finances and the Jews of England
16.Doing Business and Regulating Trade in the City of London
Religious Life and Religious Conflict
17.Tithing in Early Medieval Ireland (ca. 750)
18.Monastic Grant of King Cnut (before 1035)
19.Lay Patronage: Founding Monastic Houses (1204)
20.Conflict in Medieval Ireland: The Cistercians in the Thirteenth Century
21.Christians and Jews in Medieval England: Growing Conflict
22.Christian Orthodoxy, Christian Heresy: Responses to “Lollardy” in the Fifteenth Century
Politics, Law, and Administration
23.Adjudication of Disputes and Other Aspects of Anglo-Saxon Law (Eleventh Century)
24.Two Royal Images: King William II “Rufus” of England and King Malcolm III “Canmore” of Scotland
25.Charters of Liberties before Magna Carta: King John and the Jews (1201)
26.Reforming the Kingdom in the Thirteenth Century: The Parliament of Oxford (1258)
28.Anglo-Irish Diplomacy in Aid of Irish Tenants (1319)
29.Anglo-Scottish Relations in the Fourteenth Century: The Declaration of Arbroath (1320)
30.King Robert Bruce and Diplomacy in Scotland (1321)
Warfare, Conquest, and Diplomacy
31.King Alfred, War, and Diplomacy (Ninth Century)
32.King Athelstan and the Battle of Brunanburh (937)
33.Two Views of the Battle of Hastings (1066)
34.The Competing Reigns of King Stephen and Empress Matilda and the Siege of Newbury (1153)
35.Conflict and Consolidation in Scotland (Twelfth Century)
36.King Edward of England and Prince Llywelyn ap Gruffudd of North Wales (1275–1278)
37.Edward I in Scotland, Prisoners of War, and the Countess of Buchan (1306)
38.Crime and Violence in Early and Later Medieval Scotland (Eighth and Thirteenth Centuries)
41.Examples of Crimes Prosecuted in Local Courts: Gaol Delivery Rolls (Fourteenth Century)
42.Death and Misadventure: Examples from the Coroners’ Rolls (Fourteenth Century)
43.Chronicles of the Great Rising of 1381
Popular Culture and Literature
44.The Irish Claim Earliest Christian Adherence: The Death of Conchobhar (Early Ninth Century)
45.Nationalism and Ancient Tales of Heroism in Ireland
46.Strange Tales about the Welsh (Twelfth Century)
47.Attitudes in Popular Culture about the Sexes and Marriage (Fourteenth Century)
48.Welsh Entertainers, Welsh and English Audiences (Fourteenth to Fifteenth Centuries)
49.Theatrical Drama for a Christian Audience: The Play of Noah (Fifteenth Century)
50.Pessimism in an Age of Anxiety: The Wars of the Roses
Appendix 1: Biographical Sketches of Important Individuals Mentioned in the Text