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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... less than 200 square feet . ' In Oxford there were many shops less than 8 feet wide , and a fifteenth - century shop in Burford High Street was only 17 feet long , 7 feet broad , and 7 feet high.2 It is possible that this was a lean ...
... less than 200 square feet . ' In Oxford there were many shops less than 8 feet wide , and a fifteenth - century shop in Burford High Street was only 17 feet long , 7 feet broad , and 7 feet high.2 It is possible that this was a lean ...
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... less privacy than the gentry whose style of living he otherwise emulated . Occasion ally a very wealthy man like Sir John Pulteney would have a country house as well as a town house , but although many London merchants bought up manors ...
... less privacy than the gentry whose style of living he otherwise emulated . Occasion ally a very wealthy man like Sir John Pulteney would have a country house as well as a town house , but although many London merchants bought up manors ...
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... less fully equipped sergeants on horses valued at £ 10 or less . In the years following the English defeat at Bannockburn the Scots often harried the northern counties . The leaders who opposed them found that heavily armed or ...
... less fully equipped sergeants on horses valued at £ 10 or less . In the years following the English defeat at Bannockburn the Scots often harried the northern counties . The leaders who opposed them found that heavily armed or ...
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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