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 Files
• 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)
• Louise Creighton Social History of England (1887) (Google Book Search [Hints and tips])
• 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 Book Search [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.
• Alex. Charles Ewald Paper and Parchment. Historical Sketches (1890) (Google Book Search [Hints and tips])
  Domesday and later.
• Rudolph Gneist The English Parliament in Its transformations through a thousand years (1886) (Google Book Search [Hints and tips])
  Translated by R. Jenery Shee.
• 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 Book Search [Hints and tips])
  French text, written by Mme. H. de Witt and revised by F. P. G. Guizot.
• Matthew Hale, The History of The Common Law of England (1713) (McMaster University Archive for the History of Economic Thought)
• 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)
  PDF file (17 MB)
• 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 Files
• 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"
• 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 Files
• 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)
• 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 Book Search [Hints and tips])
• Lynn H. Nelson, The Normans in South Wales, 1070-1171 (1966) (University of Kansas)
• Lynn H. Nelson, Lectures in Medieval History (University of Kansas)
• Charles William Chadwick Oman, The Great Revolt of 1381 (1906) (McMaster University Archive for the History of Economic Thought)
  PDF file (700 KB)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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 Montomorency Imposture", debunking the alleged descent of the Irish Morres family from Hervey de Montmorency in the 12th century
• John Horace Round Studies in Peerage and Family History (1901) (Google Book Search [Hints and tips])
• 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).
• 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)
• 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 Files
• Sharon Turner The history of the Anglo-Saxons from the earliest period to the Norman Conquest (1840) (Google Book Search [Hints and tips])
  Volume 2 of 3.
• 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)]
• 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 Book Search [Hints and tips])