Set in a Silver Sea: The Island Peoples from Earliest Times to the Fifteenth Century, Volume 1Collins, 1984 - 470 pages |
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... gave theirs to Kent and Canterbury . Another tribe , whose name has endured on the continent , were the Parisii a warlike people from the Seine and Marne valleys who , landing in the Humber , conquered the plain between what is now ...
... gave theirs to Kent and Canterbury . Another tribe , whose name has endured on the continent , were the Parisii a warlike people from the Seine and Marne valleys who , landing in the Humber , conquered the plain between what is now ...
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... gave him a regular mounted field - force capable of opposing assailants who , living by war , had not , like English fyrdmen , to be for ever thinking about their neglected farms and homes . The most momentous of Alfred's military ...
... gave him a regular mounted field - force capable of opposing assailants who , living by war , had not , like English fyrdmen , to be for ever thinking about their neglected farms and homes . The most momentous of Alfred's military ...
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... gave their courtiers four meals a day , he gave his only one - he had compiled after 1085 , mainly that he might tax his realm more closely , a record of all feudal holdings directly or indirectly liable to the Crown . ' So narrowly did ...
... gave their courtiers four meals a day , he gave his only one - he had compiled after 1085 , mainly that he might tax his realm more closely , a record of all feudal holdings directly or indirectly liable to the Crown . ' So narrowly did ...
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Silent Vanished Races | 1 |
The Coming of the English | 15 |
The Faith | 24 |
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