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King Stephen
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This well-known text, the standard account of the subject, is essential reading for students and scholars of the Norman period from undergraduate level upwards, and was hailed on first publication as: " a landmark in twelfth-century studies." Written in the form of a biography this completely revised and updated edition discusses the significant social, governmental and religious developments as they arose in the course of the narrative.
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Index
Persons are indexed under their first name
Adela, Countess of Blois, 1–6, 12–13, 123
Adeliza, widow of King Henry I, 37–38, 140
Administration, by new men, 29–30, 66–67; by earls, 30–31, 125–128; continuity of, 84–85
Ailred of Rievaulx, 147, 149
Alan of Brittany, Earl of Richmond and Cornwall, 29, 41, 45, 47, 50, 51, 67, 92, 130, 136, 141
Alexander, Bishop of Lincoln (1123–48), 28–30, 52, 146
Anarchy, extent of, 82–88
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, 80, 147, 149
Anjou, see Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of
Anointing, see Coronation
Anstey, see Richard de
Antioch, siege of (1098–9), 2–4, 49, 73
Armies, mercenary, 19, 25, 42, 54, 57, 59, 66, 72, 73, 86, 94, 105, 123; size of, 37, 91, 115
Arundel, 36–38, 40, 94, 136
Aubigny, see William de
Aubrey de Vere, the chamberlain, 32
Aubrey de Vere, Earl of Oxford, 57, 130, 137–138, 142
Baldwin de Redvers, Earl of Devon, 22–24, 31, 37, 57, 95, 100, 121, 130, 139, 143
Barraclough, Geoffrey, 162–163
Bath, 36, 42; see also Robert of Lewes, Bishop of Bath
Beauchamp, see William de
Beaumont, family of, 27–28, 154–156
Bedford, 28, 31, 51, 77, 92, 106, 117; earldom of, 126, 130–132
Belvoir Castle, 47, 134
Berkeley, 90, 106, 121
Berkshire, 125, 130, 140
Bernard, St (d 1153), 61, 87,...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- List of Maps and Tables
- Preface to the First Edition
- Preface to the Third Edition
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- I. Parentage and Early Life, c. 1096–1135
- II. The Succession, 1135–1136
- III. Mistakes, 1136–1139
- IV. The Empress and her Party, 1136–1140
- V. Disaster, 1140–1141
- VI. Recovery, 1141
- VII. A Second Start, 1142–1143
- VIII. Stalemate, 1143–1147
- IX. The New Opposition, 1147–1149
- X. The Magnates’ Peace, 1150–1154
- Appendix I. Earls and Earldoms
- Appendix II. Principal Participants in the Civil War
- Appendix III. The Chronicle Sources
- Appendix IV. Politics and Property
- Appendix V. The Beaumont Twins: Waleran of Meulan and Robert Earl of Leicester
- Appendix VI. Geoffrey de Mandeville
- Appendix VII. Ranulf Earl of Chester and Coventry
- Appendix VIII. Regesta iii: Additions and Corrections
- Index