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The chief events in the history of the Norman empire are treated in the general works of Miss K. L. Norgate, England under the Angevin Kings (London, 1887); Sir J. H. Ramsay, The Angevin Empire (London, 1903); G. B. Adams, History of England from the Norman Conquest to the Death of John (London, 1905); H. W. C. Davis, England under the Normans and Angevins (London, 1905). There is a brief biography of Henry the Second by Mrs. J. R. Green (London, 1888; reprinted, 1903); and a more recent one by L. F. Salzmann (Boston, etc., 1914). A notable characterization of Henry and his work is given by William Stubbs, in the introduction to his edition of Benedict of Peterborough, (London, 1867), reprinted in his Historical Introductions (London, 1902), pp. 89-172. For the continental aspects of the reign see F. M. Powicke, The Loss of Normandy (Manchester, 1913); and his articles in the English Historical Review,, (1906–07). Cf. A. Cartellieri, ''Die Machtstellung Heinrichs II. von England, in Neue Heidelberger Jahrbücher,, pp. 269-83 (1898); F. Hardegen, Imperialpolitik König Heinrichs II. von England'' (Heidelberg, 1905). The fullest account of Irish affairs is G. H. Orpen, Ireland under the Normans (Oxford, 1911).

The best general accounts of constitutional and legal matters are those of Stubbs, Constitutional History of England, (last edition, Oxford, 1903), corrected by various special studies of J.H. Round, to be found chiefly in his Feudal England (London, 1895; reprinted, 1909) and Commune of London (Westminster, 1899); and by Pollock and Maitland, History of English Law (second edition, London, 1898). The results of recent investigation are incorporated in the studies and notes appended to the French translation of Stubbs by Petit-Dutaillis (Paris, 1907); this supplementary material is translated into English by W. E. Rhodes (Manchester, 1911). There are admirable studies of the chancery in L. Delisle Recueil des actes de Henri II concernant les provinces françaises et les affaires de France, introduction (Paris, 1909); and of the exchequer in R. L. Poole, The Exchequer in the Twelfth Century (Oxford, 1912). See also Hubert Hall, Court Life under the Plantagenets (London, 1890; reprinted, 1902). For the more distinctively Norman side of the government see Haskins, "The