Cambridge Library Collection - Medieval History: Select Charters and Other Illustrations of English Constitutional History from the Earliest Times to the Reign of Edward the First

William Stubbs (1825-1901), one of the leading historians of his generation, pursued his academic research alongside his work as a clergyman. He was elected Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford in 1866 and appointed a bishop in 1884. Stubbs was a major figure in medieval English historiography, with special interests in legal and constitutional history. This work was first published in 1870. It begins with an outline of English constitutional history, which he urged should be part of the curriculum, and then presents documents from Roman times up to the thirteenth century. Eight editions followed in Stubbs' lifetime, and it became a core textbook. The ninth edition of 1913, revised by H. W. C. Davis (1874-1928), is reissued here, and contains better editions and translations of Anglo-Saxon and French texts than were available in Stubbs' lifetime, as well as some then newly discovered material and an updated glossary.

Preface to the Ninth Edition; Part I. A Sketch of the Constitutional History of the English Nation down to the Reign of Edward I; Part II. Extracts Illustrative of the Early Polity of the English; Part III. Charters and Excerpts Illustrative of the Norman Period; Part IV. Charters and Excerpts Illustrative of the Reign of Henry II; Part V. Charters and Excerpts Illustrative of the Reigns of Richard I and John; Part VI. Charters and Excerpts Illustrative of the Reign of Henry III; Part VII. Charters and Excerpts Illustrative of the Reign of Edward I; Glossary.