the Norman Conquest

a. circumstances that determined the course of the battle of Hastings



William the Conqueror as a monarch of England

a. securing peace within and without

b. the feudal system

c. administrative division

d. Doomsday book

e. the church



William Rufus



Henry I ‘Beauclerk’

a. the Exchequer

b. the judicial system

c. the classes of society



the anarchy

a. Henry II and the process of institutionalization

b. Richard Lion heart

c. John and the Magna Carta



Henry III his relation with the church and the baronage

a. the parliament

b. division of reformers

c. Edward I as the most prominent legislator

d. development of the parliament



Edward II and the opposition

Edward III and relative peace

a. the hundred-years war



Richard II and the opposing magnates

a. Lancaster dynasty



the political collapse of the middle of the 15th century

a. the House of York

b. the battle between the Tudors and the Yorkists

c. Edward IV and Henry VII

d. The rising of a new class ( yeomen )



social aspects of the 14th century

Language standardization

a. architecture

b. cloths

c. Education