Lectures on early English history. / By William Stubbs ... Ed. by Arthur Hassall.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stubbs, William, 1825-1901.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Middle Ages.

Law--History.

Law.

History.

Nationalism.

Nationalities, Principle of.

Feudalism.

Constitutional history--Great Britain.

Constitutional history.

Great Britain.

Constitutional history--Europe.

Europe.

Physical Description:

vi pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 391 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York [etc.] : Longmans, Green, and co., 1906.

Contents:

I. The Anglo-Saxon constitution.

II. Feudalism.

III. The laws and legislation of the Norman kings.

IV. The 'Dialogus de scaccario.'

V. Leges Henrici Primi.

VI. The shiremoot and hundredmoot.

VII. The charters of Stephen.

VIII. The Domesday and later surveys.

IX. The comparative constitutional history of mediæval Europe.

X. The elements of nationality among European nations.

XI. The languages of the principal European states.

XII. The origin and position of the German, Roman, Frank, Celtic, and English churches.

XIII. The historical origin of European law.

XIV. Systems of landholding in mediæval Europe.

XV. The early European constitutions.

XVI. The kings and their councils in England, France, and Spain.

XVII. The functions of the national assemblies.

XVIII. The growth of the representative principle.

XIX. Early judicial systems.

XX. The growth of the constitutional principle in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.

XXI. The beginnings of the foreign policy of England in the middle ages.

Index.

OCLC:

870608