Introduction: The lands of the Britons
Part I. After Rome. Britain, 350-550 ; The Britons and their languages ; Inscriptions ; The Britons and the Irish, 350-800 ; From Pelagius to Gildas ; Rome and the Britons, 400-644
Part II. Early Welsh society. Charters and laws ; Lords, food-renders, and peasants ; Kinship and status ; Kingship
Part III. The Britons and the English, 550-1064. The Britons and the Northumbrians, 547-685 : the evidence ; The Britons, the Northumbrians, and the rise of Mercia, 550-685 ; The Britons and the neighbours under the Mercian hegemony, 685-825 ; Two ninth-century writers ; The transformations of the ninth century ; The Britons and the Empire of Britain ; Wales from 950 to 1064
Part IV. The Welsh church and culture. The organization of the church ; Latin learning in Wales, c. 400-1100 ; Poets and storytellers.