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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... twelfth century was the most formative century ( as it was ) in the making of the English land- scape ; but behind this abstraction there lies a daily , blinding sweat , blood at times , and backbreaking toil with axe and spade and saw ...
... twelfth century was the most formative century ( as it was ) in the making of the English land- scape ; but behind this abstraction there lies a daily , blinding sweat , blood at times , and backbreaking toil with axe and spade and saw ...
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... twelfth century . Until 1928 there stood at Stansfield in Suffolk a barn which , originally the hall of a manor - house , retained its timber columns with the scalloped capitals characteristic of the mid - twelfth century . At Leicester ...
... twelfth century . Until 1928 there stood at Stansfield in Suffolk a barn which , originally the hall of a manor - house , retained its timber columns with the scalloped capitals characteristic of the mid - twelfth century . At Leicester ...
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... twelfth century . At Glastonbury it is reproduced in stone , and when the kitchen formed the lower part of a two ... twelfth and thirteenth centuries cooking must have been done in timber buildings with stone hearths and plaster chimneys ...
... twelfth century . At Glastonbury it is reproduced in stone , and when the kitchen formed the lower part of a two ... twelfth and thirteenth centuries cooking must have been done in timber buildings with stone hearths and plaster chimneys ...
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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