1218. MORLEY, HENRY. Memoirs of Bartholomew fair. London, 1859; reprinted, [1874]; new edition, 1880. 1219. *NASSE, ERWIN. Ueber die mittelalterliche Feldgemeinschaft und die Einhegungen des 16ten Jahrhunderts in England. Bonn, 1869. pp. 71.-Translated by H. A. Ouvry, for the Cobden Club: On the agricultural community of the middle ages, etc. London, 1871; 2nd edition, 1872. Nasse called attention to the fact that the English and German land systems were the same, and that in England, as in Germany, the openfield system was the shell of the medieval village community.' There is a valuable review of this book in Georg Hanssen's Agrarhistorische Abhandlungen (2 vols., Leipsic, 1880-84), i. 484–512. 1220. NICHOLLS, H. G. Iron making in the olden times [especially in the forest of Dean]. London, 1866. pp. 82. Contains the ancient laws of the miners of Dean forest. Cf. No. 2329. 1220a. Remarks upon the history of the landed and commercial policy of England, from the invasion of the Romans to the accession of James I. 2 vols. London, 1785. 1221. Reports of the royal commission on market rights and tolls. Parl. Papers, 1888, vols. liii.-lv.; 1889, vol. xxxviii.; 1890-91, vols. xxxvii.-xli. 14 vols. in 17. [London], 1889-91. 1222. *SEEBOHM, FREDERIC. The English village community: an essay on economic history. London, 1883; 4th edition, 1890; reprinted, 1896, 1905, 1913. A very valuable contribution to agrarian history. For one of his main theories and the views of his opponents, see § 44a. 1222a. SIMON, A. L. The history of the wine trade in England. 3 vols. London, 1906-09. Valuable. 1223. SMITH, JOHN. memoirs of wool. 2 vols. Chronicon rusticum-commerciale, or London, 1747; 2nd edition, 1756-57. The best book on this subject. See also Friedrich Lohmann, Die Staatliche Regelung der Englischen Wollindustrie vom xv. bis zum xviii. Jahrhundert (Staats- und Socialwissenschaftliche Forschungen, ed. Gustav Schmoller, vol. xviii. pt. i.), Leipsic, 1900, pp. 100. 1224. TAYLOR, R. W. C. Introduction to a history of the factory system. London, 1886. Devotes much attention to the middle ages. 1225. WALFORD, CORNELIUS. Fairs, past and present a chapter in the history of commerce. London, 1883. Deals particularly with Stourbridge fair and Bartholomew fair. 1226. WARDEN, A. J. The linen trade, ancient and modern. London, 1864; 2nd edition, 1867. Deals mainly with modern times. § 26. SOCIAL HISTORY. See Nos. 94, 705, 2877. The best general work, for England, is Traill's; for Ireland, O'Curry's. See also many sections in the Victoria county histories (No. 839). For special subjects, see, besides the books noted below, E. K. Chambers, The Mediæval Stage, 2 vols., Oxford, 1903 (valuable); R. M. Clay, The Mediæval Hospitals of England, London, [1909]; J. J. Dickenmann, Das Nahrungswesen in England vom 12. bis 15. Jahrhundert, in Anglia, 1904, xxvii. 453-515; Norman Moore, History of the Study of Medicine in the British Isles, Oxford, 1908; Wilhelm Pfändler, Die Vergnügungen der Angelsachsen, in Anglia, 1906, xxix. 417– 526. For records of social history, see No. 540a. 1226a. BATESON, MARY. Medieval England. New York, 1904. A valuable brief survey of social life, 1066-1550. 1227. BRAND, JOHN. Observations on popular antiquities, chiefly illustrating the origin of our vulgar customs, etc. Revised by Henry Ellis. 2 vols. London, 1813; reprinted in 184142, and again in 1849, in 3 vols., with some unimportant additions. --New editions, by W. C. Hazlitt, 3 vols., London, 1870; 2 vols., 1905. Vol. i. The calendar. Vol. ii. Customs and ceremonies. Vol. iii. Superstitions. This is the division in the edition of 1870. In the later edition the material is redistributed in lexicographical form. Another edition, in one volume, was published in 1888. 1228. CREIGHTON, CHARLES. A history of epidemics in Britain [A.D. 664-1866]. 2 vols. Cambridge, 1891-94. Valuable. See also Heinrich Häser, Lehrbuch der Geschichte der Medicin und der Epidemischen Krankheiten, I vol., Jena, 1845; 3rd edition, 3 vols., 1875-82. 1229. CUTTS, E. L. Scenes and characters of the middle ages. London, 1872; reprinted, 1902; 3rd edition, 1911. Contains chapters on the monks, hermits, the secular clergy, minstrels, knights, and merchants. 1230. DYER, T. F. T. English folk-lore. London, 1878; 2nd edition, 1880. A small handbook, intended for popular use. 1231. EDEN, F. M. The state of the poor, or a history of the labouring classes in England, from the [Norman] conquest to the present period, with respect to diet, fuel, and habitations. 3 vols. London, 1797. Deals mainly with modern times. 1231a. JOYCE, P. W. A social history of ancient Ireland. 2 vols. London, etc., 1903; 2nd edition, 1914. Valuable. 1232. JUSSERAND, J. J. Les Anglais au moyen âge: la vie nomade et les routes d'Angleterre au xive siècle. Paris, 1884.Translated by L. T. Smith: English wayfaring life in the middle ages. London, etc., 1889; 8th edition, 1905. Valuable. 1233. MERRYWEATHER, F. S. Glimmerings in the dark, or lights and shadows of the olden time. London, 1850. Deals with monasteries, witchcraft, literary life, relics, miracles, marriage ceremonies, Jews, heresy, lawyers, etc. 1233a. NEILSON, GEORGE. Caudatus Anglicus: a mediæval slander. Edinburgh, 1896. pp. 38. [Limited edition; reprinted from Transactions of the Glasgow Archæological Society, new series, ii. pt. iv. 441-77.] Discusses the epithet 'caudatus' (tailed) as applied to Englishmen in the middle ages. 1234. NICHOLLS, GEORGE. A history of the English poor law. 2 vols. London, 1854.-New edition, with supplementary volume by Thomas Mackay, 3 vols.; 1898-99; reprinted, 1904. 1235. O'CURRY, EUGENE. On the manners and customs of the ancient Irish. Edited, with an introduction, by W. K. Sullivan. 3 vols. London, etc., 1873. Valuable, but Sullivan's elaborate introduction should be used cautiously P 1236. RHYS, JOHN. Celtic folklore, Welsh and Manx. 2 vols. Oxford, 1901. 1236a. SCHMOLLER, GUSTAV. Die soziale Entwickelung Deutschlands und Englands hauptsächlich auf dem platten Lande des Mittelalters. Jahrbuch für Gesetzgebung, Verwaltung, und Volkswirthschaft, xii. 202-18. Leipsic, 1888. 1237. STRUTT, JOSEPH. Glig-gamena Angel-deod: the sports and pastimes of the people of England. London, 1801; another edition, 1810.-Reprinted by William Hone, 1830, 1833, 1837, 1841, 1845, 1850, 1875, 1876, 1898.-New edition, enlarged, by J. C. Cox, [1903]. See also the sections on sports in the Victoria county histories (No, 839). 1238. Horda Angel-cynnan: a complete view of the manners, customs, arms, habits, etc., of the inhabitants of England. 3 vols. London, 1774-76. 157 plates. 1239. THRUPP, JOHN. The Anglo-Saxon home: a history of the domestic institutions and customs of England, from the fifth to the eleventh century. London, 1862. 1240. TRAILL, H. D. (editor). Social England: a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature, and manners. By various writers. 6 vols. London, etc., 1894-97.-Illustrated edition [revised], by H. D. Traill and J. S. Mann, 6 vols., 1901-04. Useful, but unequal in value. There is a bibliography at the end of each chapter. 1240a. *VINOGRADOFF, PAUL. English society in the eleventh century. Oxford, 1908. Deals with military organisation, jurisdiction, taxation, land tenure, manors, social classes. Much of the material relates to the periods before and after the eleventh century. 1241. WRIGHT, THOMAS. A history of domestic manners and sentiments in England [copiously illustrated]. London, 1862. [New edition]: The homes of other days, a history of domestic manners, etc. London, 1871. 211 PART II CELTIC, ROMAN, AND GERMANIC ORIGINS CHAPTER I PREHISTORIC AND CELTIC TIMES § 27. PREHISTORIC RACES, AND GENERAL WORKS ON EARLY ETHNOLOGY. The materials for the study of prehistoric times are implements, skeletons, earthworks, and similar remains, together with the traces of institutions which have been disclosed by philological research. In addition to the works mentioned below, see § 11; Ripley's bibliography (No. 1255); many sections in the Victoria county histories (No. 839); and No. 1301a. 1242. ARBOIS DE JUBAINVILLE, HENRI D'. Les premiers habitants de l'Europe. Paris, 1877; 2nd edition, 2 vols., 1889-94. Valuable. 1243. *BEDDOE, JOHN. The races of Britain. Bristol, etc., 1885. Ch. ii. Prehistoric races. Ch. iv. Roman period. Ch. ix. Norman Conquest. 1244. DAVIS, J. B., and THURNAM, JOHN. Crania Britannica skulls of the early inhabitants of the British isles. 2 vols. London, 1865 : Vol. ii. contains valuable plates. 1245. *DAWKINS, W. B. Cave hunting: researches on the evidence of caves respecting the early inhabitants of Europe. London, 1874.-Early man in Britain. London, 1880. |