Set in a Silver Sea: The Island Peoples from Earliest Times to the Fifteenth Century, Volume 1Collins, 1984 - 470 pages |
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... Italy , Gaul , Spain and Britain nominally subject to Rome . On the last night of AD 406 , a vast horde of Teutons from the German forests poured across the frozen Rhine into Gaul . Soon every city north of the Alps was in flames . The ...
... Italy , Gaul , Spain and Britain nominally subject to Rome . On the last night of AD 406 , a vast horde of Teutons from the German forests poured across the frozen Rhine into Gaul . Soon every city north of the Alps was in flames . The ...
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... Italy , exporting vast quantities of fine wool and , in good years , grain and dairy produce . It also exported hides , leather goods , dried and salted fish , em- broideries , metalware , tin , coal and lead ; mostly to the over ...
... Italy , exporting vast quantities of fine wool and , in good years , grain and dairy produce . It also exported hides , leather goods , dried and salted fish , em- broideries , metalware , tin , coal and lead ; mostly to the over ...
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... Italy and the Arraxes who took their name from Arras . Far more were enterprising English countrymen , often of villein blood , who had fled from bondage on their paternal acres to seek their fortunes behind the walls of the self ...
... Italy and the Arraxes who took their name from Arras . Far more were enterprising English countrymen , often of villein blood , who had fled from bondage on their paternal acres to seek their fortunes behind the walls of the self ...
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Silent Vanished Races | 1 |
The Coming of the English | 15 |
The Faith | 24 |
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