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Venerable Bede.

3. Alfred and the Danes.

Legends.

Dunstan.

The Danelaw.

Alfred's Reforms.

4. The Last Saxon Kings.

Edward the Confessor.

Harold.

Founding of Westminster Abbey.

(Have a paper on the Abbey if you wish.)

Suggested Readings,--

Death of Columba from Bede's Ecclesiastical History. (Bohn Library.) Tacitus' ”Agricola.”

Bulwer's ”Harold.”

III

THE NORMANS AND ANGEVINS

Papers,--

1. The Normans and the Conquest.

Normans on the Continent.

Domesday Book.

Bayeux Tapestry.

2. The Feudal System.

(See ”Ivanhoe,” opening chapter.) Castles, Chivalry, Cathedrals, Cruelties.

3. The Struggle with the Papacy.

Anselm.

Thomas a Becket.

4. England and the Crusades.

5. The Great Charter.

Suggested Readings,--

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