Medieval England, Volume 1Austin Lane Poole Clarendon Press, 1958 - 661 pages Volume 1 looks at the English countryside, domestic and military architecture, warefare, shipping, communications, towns & trade, coinage, clothing, arms & armor, and heraldry. |
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... England and had established some hundreds of villages of their own . In some districts , like the Wreake valley in east Leicestershire , nearly every village bears a Danish name for some miles on either side of the valley . Lincolnshire ...
... England and had established some hundreds of villages of their own . In some districts , like the Wreake valley in east Leicestershire , nearly every village bears a Danish name for some miles on either side of the valley . Lincolnshire ...
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... England . The resistance which Alfred and his brother organized against the Danish invasion of Wessex has been called ' the first clearly recorded campaign in England ' and his reign is certainly the earliest to reveal an English king ...
... England . The resistance which Alfred and his brother organized against the Danish invasion of Wessex has been called ' the first clearly recorded campaign in England ' and his reign is certainly the earliest to reveal an English king ...
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... England at the end of the thirteenth century . But a very large share of England's trade was at this time in the hands of foreigners , some of whom enjoyed privileges as great or greater than those of the English themselves . Drapers of ...
... England at the end of the thirteenth century . But a very large share of England's trade was at this time in the hands of foreigners , some of whom enjoyed privileges as great or greater than those of the English themselves . Drapers of ...
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in Economic History in the University of Oxford | 1 |
land and Fen 1417 4 The Moorlands 1819 5 The Monastic | 7 |
DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE AND TOWNPLAN | 37 |
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