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 302
... clothes , feasts and entertainments ; ' in such manner they spent and wasted their riches with abuses and ludicrous wantonness that the common voice of the people ex- claimed ' . The age was marked by absurd fashions in clothes ; peaked ...
... clothes , feasts and entertainments ; ' in such manner they spent and wasted their riches with abuses and ludicrous wantonness that the common voice of the people ex- claimed ' . The age was marked by absurd fashions in clothes ; peaked ...
Page 338
... clothes , painting , courtly poetry - instead of the robust pleasures of the chase , tournament and battlefield ; his closest friends ' knights of Venus rather than of Bellona ' . Quick to resent an injury and seek revenge , he embarked ...
... clothes , painting , courtly poetry - instead of the robust pleasures of the chase , tournament and battlefield ; his closest friends ' knights of Venus rather than of Bellona ' . Quick to resent an injury and seek revenge , he embarked ...
Page 381
... clothes were of coarse , greasy wool and leather , unwashed and unwashable , made from their own beasts . Their diet was cheese , bacon and , in the summer , milk ; bean and vegetable broth ; oaten cakes and rough , black wholemeal ...
... clothes were of coarse , greasy wool and leather , unwashed and unwashable , made from their own beasts . Their diet was cheese , bacon and , in the summer , milk ; bean and vegetable broth ; oaten cakes and rough , black wholemeal ...
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