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LISTS OF THE ARCHBISHOPS OF CANTERBURY AND THE BISHOPS AND
ARCHBISHOPS OF YORK TO 1377 xiii

CHAPTER I. ROME AND IONA.

St. Augustin's Mission--Pope Gregory's Scheme of Organization--
Causes of its Failure--Foundation and Overthrow of the See of
York--Independent Missions--The See of Lindisfarne--Scottish
Christianity--The Schism--The Synod of Whitby--Restoration of
the See of York 1

CHAPTER II. ORGANIZATION.

Archbishop Theodore--His Work in Organization--New Dioceses--
Wilfrith's Appeals to Rome--Literary Greatness of Northumbria--
Parishes--Tithes--The Church in Wessex--A Third Archbishopric--
The Church in Relation to the State--to Rome--to Western
Christendom 15

CHAPTER III. RUIN AND REVIVAL.

Ruin of Northumbria--AEthelwulf's Pilgrimage--Danish Invasions
of Southern England; the Peace of Wedmore--Alfred's Work--
Character of the Church in the Tenth Century--Reorganization--
Revival--Oda--Dunstan--Seculars and Regulars--Dunstan's
Ecclesiastical Administration--Coronations--Dunstan's Last
Days--AElfric the Grammarian 34

CHAPTER IV. EXHAUSTION.

Characteristics of the Period--Renewed Scandinavian Invasions--
Legislation--Archbishop AElfheah: his Martyrdom--End of the
Danish War--Cnut and the Church--The King's Clerks--Spiritual
Decadence--Foreigners appointed to English Sees--Effect of these
Appointments--Party Struggles--Earl Harold--Pilgrimages--A
Legatine Visit--A Schismatical Archbishop--The Papacy and the
Conquest--Summary: The National Character of the Church before
the Norman Conquest 55

CHAPTER V. ROYAL SUPREMACY.

The Conqueror and Lanfranc--Canterbury and York--Separate
Ecclesiastical System--Removal of Sees--Extent and Limits of
Papal Influence--The Conqueror's Bishops--Change in the
Character of the Church--An Appeal to Rome--Feudal Tendencies--
St. Anselm--Struggle against Tyranny--Investitures--Henry I.--
Councils--Legates--Independence of the See of York--Summary 77

CHAPTER VI. CLERICAL PRETENSIONS.

Stephen and the English Church--Archbishop Theobald and Henry
of Winchester--Thomas the Chancellor--The Scutage of Toulouse--
Thomas the Archbishop--Clerical Immunity--The Archbishop in
Exile--His Martyrdom--Henry's General Relations to the Church--
Conquest of Ireland--Richard's Crusade--Longchamp--Archbishop
Hubert Walter--Character of the Clergy 105

CHAPTER VII. VASSALAGE.

The Alliance between the Church and the Crown--Coronation of
John--Quarrel between John and the Pope--The Interdict--
Vassalage of England--The Great Charter--Papal Tutelage of
Henry III.--Taxation of Spiritualities--Papal Oppression--
Edmund Rich, Archbishop--Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of
Lincoln--Alienation from Rome--Civil War--Increase of Clerical
Pretensions--The Canon Law 135

CHAPTER VIII. THE CHURCH AND THE NATION.

Character of the Reign of Edward I.--Archbishop Peckham--
Statute of Mortmain--Conquest of Wales--Circumspecte Agatis--
Expulsion of the Jews--Clerical Taxation and Representation
in Parliament--Breach between the Crown and the Papacy--
Confirmation of the Charters--Archbishop Winchelsey and the
Rights of the Crown--The English Parliament and Papal
Exactions--Church and State during the Reign of Edward II.--
Papal Provisions to Bishoprics--The Bishops and Secular
Politics--The Province of York--Parliament and Convocation 161