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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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THE SCOTTOSH KINGDOM

One might suppose that the Lowlands, geographically only an extension of northern England and inhabited by an English-speaking people, would have early united with the southern kingdom. But matters turned out otherwise. The Lowlands and the Highlands came together under a line of Celtic kings, who fixed their residence at Edinburgh and long maintained their independence.

SCOTLAND ANNEXED BY EDWARD I

Edward I, having conquered Wales, took advantage of the disturbed conditions which prevailed in Scotland to interfere in the affairs of that country. The Scotch offered a brave but futile resistance under William Wallace. This heroic leader, who held out after most of his countrymen submitted, was finally captured and executed. His head, according to the barbarous practice of the time, was set upon a pole on London Bridge. The English king now annexed Scotland without further opposition.

 

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IN PRINT

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