BOOK I.--THE SOURCE

CHAPTER FIRST

The Saxons

SECTION I.--The Coast of the North Sea SECTION II.--The Northern Barbarians SECTION III.--Saxon Ideas SECTION IV.--Saxon Heroes SECTION V.--Pagan Poems SECTION VI.--Christian Poems SECTION VII.--Primitive Saxon Authors SECTION VIII.--Virility of the Saxon Race

CHAPTER SECOND

The Normans

SECTION I.--The Feudal Man SECTION II.--Normans and Saxons Contrasted SECTION III.--French Forms of Thought SECTION IV.--The Normans in England SECTION V.--The English Tongue--Early English Literary Impulses SECTION VI.--Feudal Civilization SECTION VII.--Persistence of Saxon Ideas SECTION VIII.--The English Constitution SECTION IX.--Piers Plowman and Wyclif

CHAPTER THIRD

The New Tongue

SECTION I.--The First Great Poet SECTION II.--The Decline of the Middle Ages SECTION III.--The Poetry of Chaucer SECTION IV.--Characteristics of the Canterbury Tales SECTION V.--The Art of Chaucer SECTION VI.--Scholastic Philosophy