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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Page 53
... Roman surveyors had been almost totally obliterated . Some times , as at York ( Fig . 13 ) or Chester ( Fig . 15 ) , the Roman defences still served in part to define the boundary of the medieval city : sometimes , as at Gloucester ...
... Roman surveyors had been almost totally obliterated . Some times , as at York ( Fig . 13 ) or Chester ( Fig . 15 ) , the Roman defences still served in part to define the boundary of the medieval city : sometimes , as at Gloucester ...
Page 196
... Roman rule this road - system fell slowly into decay , although Roman roads were so well built that in many parts of the country the neglect of centuries could not altogether mask their lines . These roads aided the Anglo- Saxons in ...
... Roman rule this road - system fell slowly into decay , although Roman roads were so well built that in many parts of the country the neglect of centuries could not altogether mask their lines . These roads aided the Anglo- Saxons in ...
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... Roman ' Eboracum ' , where King Edwin built for him a church , first of timber and then of stone . And when he set out on a missionary expedition into the province of Lindsey he made his way to the old Roman city of Lindum , now Lincoln ...
... Roman ' Eboracum ' , where King Edwin built for him a church , first of timber and then of stone . And when he set out on a missionary expedition into the province of Lindsey he made his way to the old Roman city of Lindum , now Lincoln ...
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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