Chapter XII: Domesday Book (3)

In the story form the current of each National life is distinctly indicated, and its picturesque and noteworthy periods and episodes are presented for the reader in their philosophical relation to each other as well as to universal history.

It is the plan of the writers of the different volumes to enter into the real life of the peoples, and to bring them before the reader as they actually lived, labored, and struggled—as they studied and wrote, and as they amused themselves. In carrying out this plan, the myths, with which the history of all lands begins, will not be overlooked, though these will be carefully distinguished from the actual history, so far as the labors of the accepted historical authorities have resulted in definite conclusions.

The subjects of the different volumes have been planned to cover connecting and, as far as possible, consecutive epochs or periods, so that the set when completed will present in a comprehensive narrative the chief events in the great STORY OF THE NATIONS; but it is, of course, not always practicable to issue the several volumes in their chronological order.

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THE STORY OF THE NATIONS

GREECE. Prof. Jas. A. Harrison. ROME. Arthur Gilman. THE JEWS. Prof. James K. Hosmer. CHALDEA. Z. A. Ragozin. GERMANY. S. Baring-Gould. NORWAY. Hjalmar H. Boyesen. SPAIN. Rev. E. E. and Susan Hale. HUNGARY. Prof. A. Vámbéry. CARTHAGE. Prof. Alfred J. Church. THE SARACENS. Arthur Gilman. THE MOORS IN SPAIN. Stanley Lane-Poole. THE NORMANS. Sarah Orne Jewett. PERSIA. S. G. W. Benjamin. ANCIENT EGYPT. Prof. Geo. Rawlinson. ALEXANDER’S EMPIRE. Prof. J. P. Mahaffy. ASSYRIA. Z. A. Ragozin. THE GOTHS. Henry Bradley. IRELAND. Hon. Emily Lawless. TURKEY. Stanley Lane-Poole. MEDIA, BABYLON, AND PERSIA. Z. A. Ragozin. MEDIÆVAL FRANCE. Prof. Gustave Masson. HOLLAND. Prof. J. Thorold Rogers. MEXICO. Susan Hale. PH[OE]NICIA. George Rawlinson. THE HANSA TOWNS. Helen Zimmern. EARLY BRITAIN. Prof. Alfred J. Church. THE BARBARY CORSAIRS. Stanley Lane-Poole. RUSSIA. W. R. Morfill. THE JEWS UNDER ROME. W. D. Morrison. SCOTLAND. John Mackintosh. SWITZERLAND. R. Stead and Mrs. A. Hug. PORTUGAL. H. Morse-Stephens. THE BYZANTINE EMPIRE. C. W. C. Oman. SICILY. E. A. Freeman. THE TUSCAN REPUBLICS. Bella Duffy. POLAND. W. R. Morfill. PARTHIA. Geo. Rawlinson. JAPAN. David Murray. THE CHRISTIAN RECOVERY OF SPAIN. H. E. Watts. AUSTRALASIA. Greville Tregarthen. SOUTHERN AFRICA. Geo. M. Theal. VENICE. Alethea Wiel. THE CRUSADES. T. S. Archer and C. L. Kingsford. VEDIC INDIA. Z. A. Ragozin. BOHEMIA. C. E. Maurice. CANADA. J. G. Bourinot. THE BALKAN STATES. William Miller. BRITISH RULE IN INDIA. R. W. Frazer. MODERN FRANCE. André Le Bon. THE BRITISH EMPIRE. Alfred T. Story. Two vols. THE FRANKS. Lewis Sergeant. THE WEST INDIES. Amos K. Fiske. THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND. Justin McCarthy, M.P. Two vols. AUSTRIA. Sidney Whitman. CHINA. Robt. K. Douglass. MODERN SPAIN. Major Martin A. S. Hume. MODERN ITALY. Pietro Orsi. THE THIRTEEN COLONIES. Helen A. Smith. Two vols. WALES AND CORNWALL. Owen M. Edwards. MEDIÆVAL ROME. Wm. Miller. THE PAPAL MONARCHY. Wm. Barry. MEDIÆVAL INDIA. Stanley Lane-Poole. BUDDHIST INDIA. T. W. Rhys-Davids. THE SOUTH AMERICAN REPUBLICS. Thomas C. Dawson. Two vols. PARLIAMENTARY ENGLAND. Edward Jenks. MEDIÆVAL ENGLAND. Mary Bateson. THE UNITED STATES. Edward Earle Sparks. Two vols. ENGLAND. THE COMING OF PARLIAMENT. L. Cecil Jane. GREECE: EARLIEST TIMES TO A.D. 14. E. S. Shuckburgh. ROMAN EMPIRE, THE, B.C. 29-A.D. 476. By N. Stuart Jones, M.A.

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Transcriber’s note

There are a number of editorial oversights wherein external and internal page references are left blank. Where the references could be found, they have been supplied.

87.27 on Waltheof’s case below, page [338.] Supplied.
116.31 See note, page [112] above. Supplied.
136.31 See the table on page [506] Supplied.

The missing page references to De la Borderie’s _Histoire de Bretagne_ on pp. 138 (footnote 89), and 139 (footnote 90) could not be resolved. Nor could the reference to a prior quotation of William of Malmesbury be definitely made (p. 414). These are noted in this text as [missing].

The list of illusatrations includes a reference at p. x.13 to the image of a coin on p. 406, but no image was included in the text.

Footnote 260, on p. 339, had no reference in the text. One has been added at the most likely point in the narrative, given the context.

Errors deemed most likely to be the printer’s have been corrected, and are noted here. The references are to the page and line in the original.

24.14 the orig[i]nal settlers of Normandy Inserted.
26.26 the [enemity] of all his fellow-nobles Obsolete.
40.15 the influence of the g[r]eat Cluniac movement Inserted.
72.20 the s[ei/ie]ge of Montgomery Castle Transposed.
76.13 to see two of Wil[l]iam’s unlucky guardians Inserted.
79.17 inflict gratuit[i]ous injury Removed.
81.30 The B[a/e]ssin and Cotentin Replaced.
129.30 which was de[s]cribed in the last chapter Inserted.
267.16 appointing a No[r]man baron Inserted.
327.18 in peaceable posses[s]ion Inserted.
338.1 the mo[ton/not] of his imprisonment Transposed.
339.7 based his accou[n]t Inserted.
424.21 upon his ag[g]ressive course as sheriff Inserted.
441.4 [“]infangenethef” is the right of trying Inserted.
441.36 a great baron cert[ia/ai]nly Transposed.
455.1 on a level w[i]th the Norman Inserted.
458.6 for the details of government[.] Added.
505.34 Clun[i/y], abbey of, 379 Replaced.