• List of maps and tables.  Preface to the first edition.  Preface to third edition.  Acknowledgements.  Abbreviations.I Parentage and early life, c 1096-1135.  II. The succession, 1135-1136.  III Mistakes, 1136-1139.  IV. The Empress and her party, 1136-1140.  V. Disaster, 1140-1141.  VI. Recovery, 1141.  VII. A second start, 1142-1143.  VIII. Stalemate, 1143-1147.  IX. The new opposition, 1147-1149.  X The Magnates' Peace, 1150-1154.  Appendix I Earls and earldoms.  Appendix II Principal participants in the Civil War.  Appendix III. The chronicle sources.  Appendix IV. Politics and property.  Appendix V. The Beaumont twins: Waleran of Meulan and Robert Earl of Leicester.  Appendix VI. Geoffrey de Mandeville.  Appendix VII. Ranulf Earl of Chester and Coventry.  Appendix VIII. Regesta III:  Additions and Corrections.  Index

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• List of maps and tables.  Preface to the first edition.  Preface to third edition.  Acknowledgements.  Abbreviations.I Parentage and early life, c 1096-1135.  II. The succession, 1135-1136.  III Mistakes, 1136-1139.  IV. The Empress and her party, 1136-1140.  V. Disaster, 1140-1141.  VI. Recovery, 1141.  VII. A second start, 1142-1143.  VIII. Stalemate, 1143-1147.  IX. The new opposition, 1147-1149.  X The Magnates' Peace, 1150-1154.  Appendix I Earls and earldoms.  Appendix II Principal participants in the Civil War.  Appendix III. The chronicle sources.  Appendix IV. Politics and property.  Appendix V. The Beaumont twins: Waleran of Meulan and Robert Earl of Leicester.  Appendix VI. Geoffrey de Mandeville.  Appendix VII. Ranulf Earl of Chester and Coventry.  Appendix VIII. Regesta III:  Additions and Corrections.  Index

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• List of maps and tables.  Preface to the first edition.  Preface to third edition.  Acknowledgements.  Abbreviations.I Parentage and early life, c 1096-1135.  II. The succession, 1135-1136.  III Mistakes, 1136-1139.  IV. The Empress and her party, 1136-1140.  V. Disaster, 1140-1141.  VI. Recovery, 1141.  VII. A second start, 1142-1143.  VIII. Stalemate, 1143-1147.  IX. The new opposition, 1147-1149.  X The Magnates' Peace, 1150-1154.  Appendix I Earls and earldoms.  Appendix II Principal participants in the Civil War.  Appendix III. The chronicle sources.  Appendix IV. Politics and property.  Appendix V. The Beaumont twins: Waleran of Meulan and Robert Earl of Leicester.  Appendix VI. Geoffrey de Mandeville.  Appendix VII. Ranulf Earl of Chester and Coventry.  Appendix VIII. Regesta III:  Additions and Corrections.  Index

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