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THE MAKING OF EUROPE / EARLY EUROPEAN HISTORY

From Hutton Webster's, Early European History (1917); edited for this on-line publication, by ELLOPOS

XIX. EUROPEAN NATIONS DURING THE LATER MIDDLE AGES

Em. Macron, Rediscovering the Path to Europe

» Contents of this Chapter

Growth of the Nations   * England under William the Conqueror, 1066-1087 A.D., the Norman Kingship   * England under Henry II, 1154-1189 A.D., Royal Justice and the Common Law   * The Great Charter, 1215 A.D.   * Parliament during the Thirteenth Century   * Expansion of England under Edward I, 1272-1307 A.D.   * Unification of France, 987-1328 A.D.   * The Hundred Years' War between England and France, 1337-1453 A.D.   * The Unification of Spain (to 1492 A.D.)   * Austria and the Swiss Confederation, 1273-1499 A.D.   * Expansion of Germany

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EXPANSION OF ENGLAND UNDER EDWARD I, 1272-1307 A.D.

THE BRITISH ISLES

Our narrative has been confined until now to England, which forms, together with Wales and Scotland, the island known as Great Britain. Ireland is the only other important division of the United Kingdom. It was almost inevitable that in process of time the British Isles should have come under a single government, but political unity has not yet fused English, Scotch, Welsh, and Irish into a single people.

WALES

The conquest of Britain by the Anglo-Saxons drove many of the Welsh, as the invaders called the Britons, into the western part of the island. This district, henceforth known as Wales, was one of the last strongholds of the Celts. Even to-day a variety of the old Celtic language, called Cymric, is still spoken by the Welsh people.

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IN PRINT

Cf. The Ancient Greece * The Ancient Rome
Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantium) * Western Medieval Europe * Renaissance in Italy