Essays on Archaeological Subjects
And on Various Questions Connected with the History of Art, Science, and Literature in the Middle Ages
2 Volume Set

Table of Contents

Volume 1:
1. On the remains of a primitive people in the south-east corner of Yorkshire
2. On some ancient barrows, or tumuli, opened in East Yorkshire
3. On some curious forms of sepulchral interment found in East Yorkshire
4. Treago, and the large tumulus at St Weonard's
5. On the ethnology of South Britain at the period of the extinction of the Roman government in the island
6. On the origin of the Welsh
7. On Anglo-Saxon antiquities, with a particular reference to the Faussett Collection
8. On the true character of the biographer Asser
9. Anglo-Saxon architecture, illustrated from illuminated manuscripts
10. On the literary history of Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Britons, and of the Romantic Cycle of King Arthur
11. On saints' lives and miracles
12. On antiquarian excavations and researches in the middle ages. Volume 2:
13. On the ancient map of the world preserved in Hereford Cathedral, as illustrative of the history of geography in the middle ages
14. On the history of the English language
15. On the abacus, or mediaeval system of arithmetic
16. On the antiquity of dates expressed in Arabic numerals
17. Remarks on an ivory casket of the beginning of the fourteenth century
18. On the carvings of the stalls in cathedral and collegiate churches
19. Illustrations of some questions relating to architectural antiquities
20. On the origin of rhymes in mediaeval poetry, and its bearing on the authenticity of the early Welsh poems
21. On the history of the drama in the middle ages
22. On the literature of the troubadours
23. On the history of comic literature during the middle ages
24. On the satirical literature of the Reformation.