History of England
Winter semester
Facts, terms and concepts (definitions and examples)
1. Names of selected Paleolithic sites in 2. ceorl/reeve/scop
Britain
3. Passage graves/ Long barrows/Round 4. weregild
barrows
5. Cairns/Cromlechs/Dolmens 6. Sutton Hoo discovery
7. Megalithic circles 8. longboat (drakkar)
9. Beaker Folk 10. shield wall (shieldburg)
11. Wessex Culture 12. huscarls (housecarls)
13. Celts 14. the battle of Eddington.
15. Modern Celtic languages in the 16. The Danelaw
British Isles
17. Ogham 18. thing (ting)
19. Hillforts (oppida) 20. danegeld
21. Druids 22. Examples of Saxon deities
23. 3 examples of Celtic deities/Celtic 24. Synod of Whitby
tribes in Roman Britain 25. Lindisfarne Gospels
26. Hadrian s Wall
27. Antonine Wall 28. Normans
29. Feudalism
30. Examples of Roman forts in Britain 31. Battle of Stamford Bridge
32. Villas 33. Battle of Hastings
34. The Bayeux Tapestry
35. Eboracum 36. The Harrying (or Harrowing) of the
North
37. Litus Saxonicum (The Saxon Shore) 38. The Doomsday Survey and Book
39. Battle of Mons Badonicus 40. Curia Regis
41. Angles, Saxons and Jutes (their 42. The Marcher Lords
homelands and areas they settled in
Britain)
43. Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy 44. Henry II s Angevin Empire
45. Offa s Dyke
46. Bretwaldas 47. Scutage (shield money)
48. thegns 49. Assize of Arms
50. ealdormen 51. Constitutions of Clarendon
52. Witenagemot (Witan) 53. Provisions of Oxford
54. fyrd 55. Inns of Court
56. hide/hundred 57. 3 examples of Welsh castles
of Edward I
Important Names
(including who the people were and what they achieved or why they are important)
1. Boudicca (Boadicea) 2. Venerable Bede
3. Constantine the Great 4. Edward the Confessor
5. Germanus of Auxerre 6. Harold Godwinson
7. Vortigern (Gwrtheirn) 8. William I Conqueror
9. Hengist and Horsa
10. Ambrosius Aurelianus 11. Simon de Montfort
12. King Offa 13. Roger Bacon
14. Ethelred the Unready (Un-raed) 15. John I Lackland
16. Canute the Great 17. Edward I Longshanks
18. St.Patrick 19. Llywelyn ap Gruffydd
20. St.Colum Cille 21. William Wallace
22. Theodore of Tharsus
More general issues
(their dating, origins, course and consequences)
1. Celtic social lorganization, feasts and warfare
2. Caesar s expeditions to Britain ( 55 and 54 AD)
3. Claudius invasion of Britain
4. Boudicca s revolt
5. The Routes of the Vikings
6. Alfred the Great and his reforms
7. Irish monasticism
8. St.Augustine s mission
9. Battle of Hastings
10. Henry II s succession to the throne
11. Martyrdom of St.Thomas Becket
12. Richard I and the Third Crusade
13. The conflict between Henry III and the Barons
14. The origins of Oxford and Cambridge Universities (including names of the first
colleges in Oxford)
15. Magna Carta (origins, definition, examples of clauses, implementation of the charter)