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 130
... military , and in which magnates maintained households which in cluded armed retainers . After the Danish conquests of the eleventh century there was a closely knit body of royal house- carles whose duties were purely military and who ...
... military , and in which magnates maintained households which in cluded armed retainers . After the Danish conquests of the eleventh century there was a closely knit body of royal house- carles whose duties were purely military and who ...
Page 137
... military service and castle guard . The hierarchy of feudal relationships so created provided a framework within which much of the government of England was carried on , including its military aspect . Too often , how ever , it is ...
... military service and castle guard . The hierarchy of feudal relationships so created provided a framework within which much of the government of England was carried on , including its military aspect . Too often , how ever , it is ...
Page 157
... military organization was balanced by a weakness in siegecraft . Even after his sweeping success at Crécy Edward III had taken nearly a year to reduce Calais . In the later years of his reign English military policy was increasingly ...
... military organization was balanced by a weakness in siegecraft . Even after his sweeping success at Crécy Edward III had taken nearly a year to reduce Calais . In the later years of his reign English military policy was increasingly ...
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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