Medieval source material on the internet: Modern works: History

Modern works:

(1) History

• G. B. Adams, History of England From the Norman Conquest to the Death of John (1066-1216) (1905) (Case Western Reserve University)
  PDF file.
• Grant Allen, Early Britain. Anglo-Saxon Britain [1881] (Project Gutenberg)
• William James Ashley, An Introduction to English Economic History and Theory (4th edn, 1906-9) Volume 1: The Middle Ages and Volume 2: The End of the Middle Ages (McMaster University Archive for the History of Economic Thought)
  PDF files (500 and 900 KB)
• Adolphus Ballard, The English Borough in the Twelfth Century (1914) (McMaster University Archive for the History of Economic Thought)
  PDF file (2.5 MB)
• William Camden, Britannia (1607) (Dana F. Sutton, University of California, Irvine)
  Latin text, in parallel with the English translation of Philemon Holland, with additional notes.
• Emily Compton, Property, Propriety, and Patriarchy: Abduction, Assault and Housebreaking in the Court of Common Pleas, 1399-1500. (2014) (University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada)
  MA thesis. Study based on the abstracts of cases connected with London by Jonathan Mackman and Matthew Stevens.
• Louise Creighton Social History of England (1887) (Google Books [Hints and tips])
  [Other copies at: Internet Archive - Text Archive.]
• Thomas Peter Ellis, Welsh Tribal Law and Custom in the Middle Ages (1926) Volume 1 and Volume 2 (McMaster University Archive for the History of Economic Thought)
  PDF files (16 MB each)
• Charles I. Elton The Tenures of Kent (1867) (Google Books [Hints and tips])
  A study of the history of land tenure in Kent, with special reference to gavelkind, a form of tenure in which lands were divided between sons rather than passing to the eldest.
  [Other copies at: Internet Archive - Text Archive:  1 ;  2 ;  3 .]
• Alex. Charles Ewald Paper and Parchment. Historical Sketches (1890) (Google Books [Hints and tips])
  Domesday and later.
  [Other copies at: Internet Archive - Text Archive:  1 ;  2 .]
• William Farrer, An outline itinerary of King Henry the First. (1919) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
  Detailed summary of documentary evidence about the movements of Henry I throughout his reign.
• Abbot [Francis Aidan] Gasquet, Henry VIII and the English Monasteries. (1906) (Internet Archive - Text Archive))
• Rudolph Gneist The English Parliament in Its transformations through a thousand years (1886) (Google Books [Hints and tips])
  Translated by R. Jenery Shee.
  [Other copies at: Internet Archive - Text Archive:  1 ;  2 .]
• Charles Gross, The Gild Merchant (1890) Volume 1 and Volume 2 (McMaster University Archive for the History of Economic Thought)
  PDF files (28 and 33 MB)
• M. [F. P. G.] Guizot Edouard III et les bourgeois de Calais ou Les Anglais en France (1854) (Google Books [Hints and tips])
  French text, written by Mme. H. de Witt and revised by F. P. G. Guizot.
  [Other copies at: Internet Archive - Text Archive.]
• Matthew Hale, The History of The Common Law of England (1713) (McMaster University Archive for the History of Economic Thought)
• Hubert Hall, The Red Book of the Exchequer. A reply to Mr J. H. Round. (1898) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
• Wilhelm Hasbach, A History of the English Agricultural Labourer (1908) (McMaster University Archive for the History of Economic Thought)
  PDF file (17 MB)
• Charles Homer Haskins, Norman Institutions (1918) (McMaster University Archive for the History of Economic Thought)
  [Other copies at: Internet Archive - Text Archive:  1 ;  2 ;  3 ;  4 .]
• Dorothy Hughes, ed., Illustrations of Chaucer�s England (Elfinspell)
  English translations of documents from various sources relating to England in the late 14th century
• Arthur D. Innes, England Under the Tudors (1913) (Case Western Reserve University)
  PDF file.
• Joseph Jacobs, England (JewishEncyclopaedia.com)
  Article on the history of Jews in England from the Jewish Encyclopaedia (1901-1906), including a detailed account of their medieval history. With cross references to other relevant articles, including those on "London", "York", "Exchequer of the Jews", "Domus Conversorum", "Aaron of Lincoln" and "Hugh of Lincoln"
• Charles Knight, ed., Old England: A Pictorial Museum of Regal, Ecclesiastical, Municipal, Baronial, and Popular Antiquities. Volume 1. (1845, c. 1860) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
  [Other copies at: Internet Archive - Text Archive:  1 ;  2 ;  3 .]
• Charles Knight, ed., Old England: A Pictorial Museum of Regal, Ecclesiastical, Municipal, Baronial, and Popular Antiquities. Volume 2. (1845, c. 1860) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
  [Other copies at: Internet Archive - Text Archive:  1 ;  2 ;  3 .]
• John Mitchell Kemble, The Saxons in England: A History of the English Commonwealth to the Time of the Norman Conquest (1876 edn) Volume 1 and Volume 2 (McMaster University Archive for the History of Economic Thought)
  PDF files (16-18 MB)
• Paul Lacroix, Manners, Customs and Dress during the Middle Ages and during the Renaissance Period (1876) (Case Western Reserve University)
  PDF file.
• Craig Levin, Seakeeping: The effort to maintain English naval superiority during the years 1450 to 1480. Part 1 and Part 2 (1996) (Stefan's Florilegium) [not available, 20 June 2019; see the Internet Archive's copies of these pages, from April 2015 and August 2012]
• Frederic William Maitland, Domesday Book and Beyond: Three Essays in the Early History of England [1897] (Archive for the History of Economic Thought, McMaster University)
• Erwin Nasse, On The Agricultural Community of the Middle Ages, and Inclosures of the Sixteenth Century in England (1872) (McMaster University Archive for the History of Economic Thought)
  Translation by H. A. Odvey. PDF file (230 KB)
• George Neilson Trial by Combat (1890) (Google Books [Hints and tips])
  [Other copies at: Internet Archive - Text Archive:  1 ;  2 .]
• Lynn H. Nelson, The Normans in South Wales, 1070-1171 (European University Institute, Florence, Italy) [not available, 22 June 2024; see the Internet Archive's copy of this page, from December 2021]
• Lynn H. Nelson, Lectures in Medieval History (WWW Virtual Library)
• Charles Oman, The Great Revolt of 1381 (1906) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
• Reginald Lane-Poole, The Exchequer in the Twelfth Century (1912) (McMaster University Archive for the History of Economic Thought)
  PDF file (6 MB)
• Eileen Edna LePoer Power, The Wool Trade in English Medieval History (1941) (McMaster University Archive for the History of Economic Thought)
  Text of a series of lectures. PDF file (160 KB)
• Bertha Haven Putnam, The Enforcement of the Statutes of Labourers During the First Decade after the Black Death 1349-1359. (1908) (McMaster University Archive for the History of Economic Thought)
  About two thirds of the work consists of transcripts of contemporary sources, including many personal names.
• James Edwin Thorold Rogers, Six Centuries of Work and Wages (1884) (McMaster University Archive for the History of Economic Thought)
  PDF file (1.5 MB)
• J. Horace Round, Companions of the Conqueror. (1901) (Google Books [Hints and tips])
  From the Monthly Review, June 1901, pp. 91-111.
  [Other copies at: Internet Archive - Text Archive.]
• John Horace Round, Feudal England (1895) (McMaster University Archive for the History of Economic Thought)
  PDF file (17.6 MB) A collection of papers, including "The Lords of Ardres", discussing the Domesday tenant Arnold of Ardres, "Walter Tirel and his wife", investigating the relationships between the families of Tirel, Clare and Giffard in the 11th and 12th centuries, "The Origin of the Nevilles", speculating about the ancestry of Robert fitz Maldred, male-line ancestor of the Nevilles, and "The Montmorency Imposture", debunking the alleged descent of the Irish Morres family from Hervey de Montmorency in the 12th century
• J. Horace Round, Peerage and Pedigree: Studies in Peerage Law and Family History (1910) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
  A collection of papers, including "The Willoughby d'Eresby case and the rise of the Berties" and "The Barony of Delawarr".
• John Horace Round Studies in Peerage and Family History (1901) (Google Books [Hints and tips])
  [Other copies at: Internet Archive - Text Archive.]
• J. H. Round, Studies on the Red Book of the Exchequer. [1898] (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
  [Other copies at: Internet Archive - Text Archive:  1 ;  2 .]
• Kenneth M. Setton, ed., A History of the Crusades (University of Wisconsin)
  Searchable text of the six-volume publication (1969-1989)
• Chief Justice Spigelman, A Twelfth Century Succession at York (Supreme Court of New South Wales)
  Address to the Selden Society on the disputed succession to the archbishopric of York after 1140 (2000).
• Wendy B. Stevenson, England and Normandy, 1204-1259 (1974) (University of Leeds)
  Ph. D. thesis examining Anglo-Norman relations between the loss of Normandy and the formal acknowledgment of French sovereignty.
• William Stubbs
  • The Constitutional History of England in Its Origin and Development (6th edn, 1903) Volume 1, Volume 2 and Volume 3 (McMaster University Archive for the History of Economic Thought)
    PDF files (26-28 MB)
  • Charles Petit-Dutaillis, Studies and Notes Supplementary to Stubbs' Constitutional History Volume 1 (1911) and Volume 2 (1915) (McMaster University Archive for the History of Economic Thought)
    PDF files (5-6 MB)
• James Tait, The Medieval English Borough (1936) (McMaster University Archive for the History of Economic Thought)
  PDF file (16 MB)
• Andrew W. Taubman, Clergy and Commoners: Interactions between medieval clergy and laity in a regional context (2009) (White Rose eTheses Online)
  University of York Ph. D. thesis covering with the Humber Region Lowlands during the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries.
• Thomas Frederick Tout
  • Chapters in the Administrative History of Medieval England: The Wardrobe, The Chambers and the Small Seals (1920-33) Volume 1, Volume 2, Volume 3, Volume 4, Volume 5 and Volume 6 (McMaster University Archive for the History of Economic Thought)
    PDF files (15-22 MB)
  • The History of England From the Accession of Henry III to the Death of Edward III (1216-1377) (1905) (Case Western Reserve University)
    PDF file.
• Sharon Turner, The history of the Anglo-Saxons from the earliest period to the Norman Conquest, volume 1. (1852) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
  [Other copies at: Internet Archive - Text Archive:  1 ;  2 .]
• Sharon Turner, The history of the Anglo-Saxons from the earliest period to the Norman Conquest, volume 2. (1852) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
  [Other copies at: Internet Archive - Text Archive:  1 ;  2 .]
• Sharon Turner, The history of the Anglo-Saxons from the earliest period to the Norman Conquest, volume 3. (1852) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
  [Other copies at: Internet Archive - Text Archive:  1 ;  2 .]
• Paul Govrilovitch Vinogradoff (McMaster University Archive for the History of Economic Thought)
  • Villainage in England: Essays in English Mediaeval History (1892)
    Includes essays on The Peasantry of the Feudal Age and The Manor and the Village Community
  • Feudalism [Cambridge Medieval History, volume 3, pp. 458-484 (1924)]
  • The Foundations of Society (Origins of Feudalism) [Cambridge Medieval History, volume 2, pp. 630-654 (1913)]
  • Agricultural Services [Economic Journal, volume 10 (1900)]
• Ancient Wales Studies (Center for the Study of Ancient Wales)
  Website of a Texas-based foundation for research into medieval Welsh history, including genealogy. A number of research papers are available on the site.
• A. W. Ward and others, The Cambridge Modern History (1st edition, 1902-1911) (University of Mannheim)
  Text and scanned images from volumes 1-6 and 13. For England, the text covers the early Tudors onwards. Volume 13 includes chart pedigrees of the royal family and some other prominent families
• Charles Truman Wyckoff Feudal relations between the kings of England and Scotland under the early Plantagenets (1897) (Google Books [Hints and tips])
  [Other copies at: Internet Archive - Text Archive:  1 ;  2 ;  3 ;  4 .]