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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... land as had been brought into use presented two different faces . One typical landscape was that of a nucleated village lying in the centre of its territory , with large unenclosed ex panses of land all around it , in which the holdings ...
... land as had been brought into use presented two different faces . One typical landscape was that of a nucleated village lying in the centre of its territory , with large unenclosed ex panses of land all around it , in which the holdings ...
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... land . There were far too few people in the country to develop its natural resources to the full . England was still at an early colonial stage of development , and was to remain so , indeed , until the end of the sixteenth century . It ...
... land . There were far too few people in the country to develop its natural resources to the full . England was still at an early colonial stage of development , and was to remain so , indeed , until the end of the sixteenth century . It ...
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... land already cleared was thereby made difficult to cultivate . Only three counties ( Norfolk , Suffolk , and Kent ) are known to have contained no land subject to forest law . On the other hand , the whole of Essex may have been subject ...
... land already cleared was thereby made difficult to cultivate . Only three counties ( Norfolk , Suffolk , and Kent ) are known to have contained no land subject to forest law . On the other hand , the whole of Essex may have been subject ...
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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