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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... probably be true of other counties where , in Tudor times , the arable is described as wholly enclosed . Already , then , by the eve of the Black Death , open fields in some regions were giving way to a landscape of hedged enclosures ...
... probably be true of other counties where , in Tudor times , the arable is described as wholly enclosed . Already , then , by the eve of the Black Death , open fields in some regions were giving way to a landscape of hedged enclosures ...
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... Probably parts of the enclosing walls of Peveril castle in the Peak district , and of Brough - under - Stainmore in Westmorland , are as early . On the Welsh marches Ludlow is another great castle which , like Richmond and Peveril , is ...
... Probably parts of the enclosing walls of Peveril castle in the Peak district , and of Brough - under - Stainmore in Westmorland , are as early . On the Welsh marches Ludlow is another great castle which , like Richmond and Peveril , is ...
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... probably to Iceland , and home by way of the Shetlands and Brittany . For his second voyage , on the advice of his foster- mother , the saint built a wooden boat ; and it was the introduc tion of planked boats , capable of carrying ...
... probably to Iceland , and home by way of the Shetlands and Brittany . For his second voyage , on the advice of his foster- mother , the saint built a wooden boat ; and it was the introduc tion of planked boats , capable of carrying ...
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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