Introduction
1: Political Patterns: The Struggle for the Succession, 1075-1225;
The Cross-Channel Realm; Court Politics; Predatory and Punitive
Rule; Rebellion
2: England and Beyond: England and the British Isles; England and
the Wider World
3: Lordship and Government: Kingship and Lordship; Regality; The
Household and Household Administration; Itineration; Assemblies;
Territorial Administration; Royal Finances; Courts and Judgements;
Records and Record-Keeping
4: The Aristocracy: The Structure of the Aristocracy; The
Aristocratic Estate; The Life of the Aristocracy
5: Warfare: Waging War; Recruitment; Castles
6: The Rural Foundations: The Physical Framework; Population;
Settlement Patterns; Land Use and Agricultural Techniques; The
Manorial Economy; Rural Social Structure
7: Towns and Trade: Urbanization; Town Law; Urban Self-Government;
London; Urban Unrest; The Jews; Trade, the Framework; Commodities;
Coinage and Monetization
8: The Institutional Church: The Hierarchy; Kingly Power and
Priestly Power; The Religious
9: Religious Life: Concepts of the Holy; Devotion; Saints and their
Cults; Overseas Pilgrimage; Dissent
10: Cultural Patterns: Languages and Literature; Education and
Higher Learning; The Visual Arts; Performance; The Value of the
Arts
11: The Course of Life: Childhood; Naming Patterns; Love, Sex, and
Marriage; Manners; Medicine and Healing; Death and the Dead
12: Cosmologies: Time; The World; The Chain of Being; Beings
Neither Angelic, Human, nor Animal
Chronology of Political Events
Bibliography
Index
Wardlaw Prof. of Medieval History
Many readers of Robert Bartlett's volume in the New Oxford History of England will be delighted with his recreation of twelfth-century English society...He writes about an astonishing range of subjects using a remarkable assortment of sources. This is a 'must have' volume for every scholar's bookshelf, and there are few who will read it without learning something new. Journal of Ecclesiastical History The discussions of religious practice and the course of life from cradle to grave (which draw heavily on clerical writing) are fascinating...His stage is thickly thronged with a rich diversity of beings, alive, dead, and even the undead. Journal of Ecclesiastical History This is an extraordinary and uncompromising book. Extraordinary because it offers a rich cascade of brilliant and thought-provoking analytical sketches and case studies, illuminating just about every conceivable aspect of the daily life of twelfth-century England, as well as some aspects which minds less imaginative than Robert Bartlett's might have thought inconceivable. John Gillingham, Times Literary Supplement There can be few who will not read this book with profit... good value...well illustrated...this volume is a good read, from whom all readers, at any levels, will learn much. Journal of the Society of Archivists This is a superb work of scholarship that will inspire future generations to cherish and to further investigate the medieval past. No reader could fail to be impressed by its scope and its flair. English Historical Review One of the most brilliant and idiosyncratic books ever to have been published on the history of medieval England. The freshness of Bartlett's approach is entirely exhilarating. Much as we might presume to know the chief twelfth-century sources, time after time Bartlett will throw in some new authority, or reintroduce us to the familiar, scattering spice for even the most jaded of palates...This book deserves to command a wide popular readership. English Historical Review In bringing to life the anxieties of twelfth-century Englishmen, Bartlett rescues from oblivion sources which are either unknown or far too little known. John Gillingham, Times Literary Supplement
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