Alfred the GreatMacmillan & Company, 1869 - 334 pages |
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... noble churches , abbeys , monasteries ; but the ecclesiastics had not emancipated themselves from the civil governor , and their persons and pro- perty were answerable to him for breach of the laws of the realm . Mortmain had not yet ...
... noble churches , abbeys , monasteries ; but the ecclesiastics had not emancipated themselves from the civil governor , and their persons and pro- perty were answerable to him for breach of the laws of the realm . Mortmain had not yet ...
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... nobles , now by prelates whose reputation as learned men is still alive -traversing the great Alps , and through the garden of the world approaching once again the Eternal City , renewing the memories of his childhood amongst its ruins ...
... nobles , now by prelates whose reputation as learned men is still alive -traversing the great Alps , and through the garden of the world approaching once again the Eternal City , renewing the memories of his childhood amongst its ruins ...
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... nobles in Aquitaine itself , the court of Charles the Bald was at once stately and magnificent , and the centre of all that could be called high culture outside of Rome . Charles himself , like Ethelwulf , was under the influence of ...
... nobles in Aquitaine itself , the court of Charles the Bald was at once stately and magnificent , and the centre of all that could be called high culture outside of Rome . Charles himself , like Ethelwulf , was under the influence of ...
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Thomas Hughes. from those parts by the nobles . They there , we may fancy , reading and talking with John the Irishman . on many subjects . He , for his part , for the moment , at the instigation of Hincmar , is engaged in discus- sion ...
Thomas Hughes. from those parts by the nobles . They there , we may fancy , reading and talking with John the Irishman . on many subjects . He , for his part , for the moment , at the instigation of Hincmar , is engaged in discus- sion ...
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... noble , her husband's friend , of which cup he died , and the king having partaken of it , died also . And Eadburgha ... nobles met and bound themselves together by a secret oath in the forest of Selwood - the great wood , silva magna ...
... noble , her husband's friend , of which cup he died , and the king having partaken of it , died also . And Eadburgha ... nobles met and bound themselves together by a secret oath in the forest of Selwood - the great wood , silva magna ...
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