
History of the English People, Vol. 1
By John Richard GreenLength9h 13m
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Excerpt: "For the conquest of Britain by the English our authorities are scant and imperfect. The only extant British account is the "Epistola" of Gildas, a work written probably about A.D. 560. The style of Gildas is diffuse and inflated, but his book is of great value in the light it throws on the state of the island at that time, and above all as the one record of the conquest which we have from the side of the conquered. The English conquerors, on the other hand, have left jottings of their conquest of Kent, Sussex, and Wessex in the curious annals which form the opening of the compilation now known as the "English" or "Anglo-Saxon Chronicle," annals which are undoubtedly historic, though with a slight mythical intermixture. For the history of the English conquest of mid-Britain or the Eastern Coast we possess no written materials from either side; and a fragment of the Annals of Northumbria embodied in the later compilation ("Historia Britonum") which bears the name of Nennius alone throws light on the conquest of the North."
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GenreHistory
Length9 hrs 13 mins
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Publish dateNov 30, 2017
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Table of contents
1HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH PEOPLE VOLUME I
7CHAPTER I THE CONQUEROR 1071-1085
2BOOK I EARLY ENGLAND 449-1071
8CHAPTER II THE NORMAN KINGS 1085-1154
3CHAPTER I THE ENGLISH CONQUEST OF BRITAIN 449-577
9CHAPTER III HENRY THE SECOND 1154-1189
4CHAPTER II THE ENGLISH KINGDOMS 577-796
10CHAPTER IV THE ANGEVIN KINGS 1189-1204
5CHAPTER III WESSEX AND THE NORTHMEN 796-947
11BOOK III THE CHARTER 1204-1307
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6BOOK II ENGLAND UNDER FOREIGN KINGS 1071-1204
12CHAPTER I JOHN 1204-1216