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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... whole of Essex may have been subject to it . The royal forests reached their greatest extent under Henry II and thereafter diminished gradually in extent as Richard and John sold their rights in order to relieve their finances . The whole ...
... whole of Essex may have been subject to it . The royal forests reached their greatest extent under Henry II and thereafter diminished gradually in extent as Richard and John sold their rights in order to relieve their finances . The whole ...
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... whole structure , and being set at regular intervals , formed an index to the size of a house . Thus a fifteenth - century Derbyshire lease specifies a house with eight pairs of crucks , another with five pairs of crucks , a barn with ...
... whole structure , and being set at regular intervals , formed an index to the size of a house . Thus a fifteenth - century Derbyshire lease specifies a house with eight pairs of crucks , another with five pairs of crucks , a barn with ...
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... whole kingdom . Beside these developments , peasant service as such may have declined in importance . There are signs that by the eleventh century only a fraction of the whole free population was summoned , while many of the ceorls who ...
... whole kingdom . Beside these developments , peasant service as such may have declined in importance . There are signs that by the eleventh century only a fraction of the whole free population was summoned , while many of the ceorls who ...
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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