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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... farmsteads away from any village . These single farmsteads were probably the result of woodland clearance by individual peasant house holds . Their little fields lay in severalty from the beginning , hacked out of the waste yard by yard ...
... farmsteads away from any village . These single farmsteads were probably the result of woodland clearance by individual peasant house holds . Their little fields lay in severalty from the beginning , hacked out of the waste yard by yard ...
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... farmsteads being built by the sons or kins men of the original founder upon the ancestral site . There was more than enough land for all in the surrounding waste , and there would be a natural tendency to keep the homesteads to gether ...
... farmsteads being built by the sons or kins men of the original founder upon the ancestral site . There was more than enough land for all in the surrounding waste , and there would be a natural tendency to keep the homesteads to gether ...
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... farmsteads of this period , built of natural blocks of moorstone , as the surface granite was called , survive in a ruined state - at Yardworthy , Challacombe , and Cholwich Town , for example - and are among the very few early medie ...
... farmsteads of this period , built of natural blocks of moorstone , as the surface granite was called , survive in a ruined state - at Yardworthy , Challacombe , and Cholwich Town , for example - and are among the very few early medie ...
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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