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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... Norman element at the court of Edward the Confessor . Ralf , the Confessor's nephew , whose father was Drogo , count of the French Vexin , and who held the earldom of Herefordshire from 1053 to 1057 , promoted the construction of ...
... Norman element at the court of Edward the Confessor . Ralf , the Confessor's nephew , whose father was Drogo , count of the French Vexin , and who held the earldom of Herefordshire from 1053 to 1057 , promoted the construction of ...
Page 223
... Norman castle , with forty - one bur gesses at the time of Domesday , came in course of time quite to supplant the ' old borough ' round Tombland to the east of the castle as the centre of the city's life . At Shrewsbury the English ...
... Norman castle , with forty - one bur gesses at the time of Domesday , came in course of time quite to supplant the ' old borough ' round Tombland to the east of the castle as the centre of the city's life . At Shrewsbury the English ...
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... Norman Conquest some towns came for the first time under the control of a feudal lord . Whereas in Saxon days most boroughs had been directly sub- ject to the Crown , which had played so important a part in their creation , Norman kings ...
... Norman Conquest some towns came for the first time under the control of a feudal lord . Whereas in Saxon days most boroughs had been directly sub- ject to the Crown , which had played so important a part in their creation , Norman kings ...
Contents
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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