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 31
... fifteenth century . Nor did the work of colonization entirely cease . In the woodlands of Buckingham- shire and Hertfordshire , fifteenth - century assarts are common , though on nothing like the scale of the twelfth and thirteenth ...
... fifteenth century . Nor did the work of colonization entirely cease . In the woodlands of Buckingham- shire and Hertfordshire , fifteenth - century assarts are common , though on nothing like the scale of the twelfth and thirteenth ...
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... fifteenth century the quadrangular plan , which at Haddon had been attained piecemeal by successive additions , was normally adopted from the start when building a house of any size . A good example of the smaller sort is seen at Icomb ...
... fifteenth century the quadrangular plan , which at Haddon had been attained piecemeal by successive additions , was normally adopted from the start when building a house of any size . A good example of the smaller sort is seen at Icomb ...
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... fifteenth century . The previous symmetrical appearance of the armoured man gave way to a loading of the left or bridle arm with large plate defences , enveloping reinforcements on the elbows , and increased protection to the shoulders ...
... fifteenth century . The previous symmetrical appearance of the armoured man gave way to a loading of the left or bridle arm with large plate defences , enveloping reinforcements on the elbows , and increased protection to the shoulders ...
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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