Set in a Silver Sea: The Island Peoples from Earliest Times to the Fifteenth Century, Volume 1Collins, 1984 - 470 pages |
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Page 401
... cloth- manufacturing towns of Flanders , Artois , Brabant and Hainault . Though for most of the Middle Ages England was primarily a supplier of raw wool to others , cloth was always manufactured on a small scale for home consumption in ...
... cloth- manufacturing towns of Flanders , Artois , Brabant and Hainault . Though for most of the Middle Ages England was primarily a supplier of raw wool to others , cloth was always manufactured on a small scale for home consumption in ...
Page 408
... cloth trade started to expand so rapidly that by the middle of the follow- ing century - the last of the Middle Ages - it was already absorbing most of the native wool crop . In 1353 , two thousand cloths were exported ; forty years ...
... cloth trade started to expand so rapidly that by the middle of the follow- ing century - the last of the Middle Ages - it was already absorbing most of the native wool crop . In 1353 , two thousand cloths were exported ; forty years ...
Page 409
... cloth trade and the fierce and often armed resistance it provoked from foreign competitors - especially the German Hanse in the Baltic favoured the growth of London . Except for Bristol , with its merchant princes and shipowners like ...
... cloth trade and the fierce and often armed resistance it provoked from foreign competitors - especially the German Hanse in the Baltic favoured the growth of London . Except for Bristol , with its merchant princes and shipowners like ...
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Silent Vanished Races | 1 |
The Coming of the English | 15 |
The Faith | 24 |
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