England Before Elizabeth

Helen Cam (1885–1968) was an English historian of the Middle Ages and the first woman to be appointed a tenured professor at Harvard University.

Original Reviews of England Before Elizabeth: ‘One of the most distinguished medievalists has undertaken the task of setting out the whole sweep of English history from the first prehistoric immigrants to the accession of Elizabeth.’ The Time Educational Supplement‘Provides as judicious and as accurate a survey as anyone has a right to expect within this compass. Dr. Cam concentrates above all on political and constitutional growth, about which she is specially qualified to speak with authority.’ The Guardian‘An unusually interesting and stimulating work…’ Downside Review.

• 1.Britain Before the English 2. The Process of Unification: The Bretwealdas 3. The Process of Unification: The West Saxon Response to the Danish Challenge 4. England Under the Last Anglo-Saxon King 1042-1066 5. The Norman Conquest 6. The Anglo-Norman Monarchy 1087-1154: From Tyranny to Anarchy 7. Henry II and the Common Law 8. The Baronial Reaction: Runnymede and Evesham 9. The English Justinian 1272-1307 10. The Working and Winning Communities 11. English Monasticism 12. Monarchy Versus Aristocracy 1297-1399 13. The Decline and Fall of Feudalism 14. The Unification of the National Language 15. The Reformation: England Stands Alone.