Feudal England
Historical Studies on the XIth and XIIth Centuries

These collected essays contain Round's lasting contribution to medieval scholarship: his argument that the Norman Conquest transplanted feudalism to England.

John Horace Round (Author)

9781108014496, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 17 June 2010

612 pages
21.6 x 14 x 3.5 cm, 0.77 kg

John Horace Round (1854–1928) published Feudal England in 1895. The volume is a collection of Round's articles on feudalism, most of which had been previously published in the English Historical Review. The essays cover the period 1050–1200. They are linked by Round's overarching argument that it was the Norman Conquest that transplanted feudalism to England and that during the Anglo-Saxon period England had no real feudal institutions. The volume includes Round's groundbreaking article 'The Introduction of Knight Service into England', first published in the English Historical Review for 1891–1892; a number of his important essays on the Domesday Book, a topic on which he was long regarded as the leading expert; and several essays challenging the historical methods of Professor Freeman, the main opponent of Round's ideas. Feudal England was highly influential in medieval scholarship, and is still an important resource for researchers.

Part I. Territorial Studies: 1. Domesday Book
2. The Northamptonshire Geld-Roll
3. The Knights of Peterborough
4. The Worcestershire Survey (Hen. I)
5. The Lindsey Survey (1115–1118)
6. The Leicestershire Survey (1124–1129)
7. The Northamptonshire Survey (Hen. I-Hen. II)
8. The introduction of knight service into England
Part II. Historical Studies: 1. Normans under Edward the Confessor
2. Mr. Freeman and the Battle of Hastings
3. Master Wace
4. Note on the Pseudo-Ingulf
5. Regenbald, priest and chancellor
6. The Conqueror at Exeter
7. The alleged destruction of Leicester (1068)
8. Ely and her despoilers (1072–1075)
9. The Lords of Ardres
10. Early Irish trade with Chester and Rouen
11. Walter Tirel and his wife
12. Waldric, warrior and chancellor
13. A charter of Henry I (1123)
14. The origin of the Nevilles
15. The alleged invasion of England in 1147
16. The alleged debate on Danegeld (1163)
17. A glimpse of the Young King's court (1170)
18. The first known fine (1175)
19. The Montmorency imposture
20. The Oxford debate on foreign service (1197)
21. Richard the First's change of seal (1198)
22. Communal house demolition
23. The Cinque Port charters
Addenda
Index.

Subject Areas: Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500 [HBLC]