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 xiii
... growing interest in social history has added a new dimension to the study of the past . And in the last half ... grown on me that , were I to live long enough , the best use 1 Thomas Traherne : Serious and Pathetical Contemplation of the ...
... growing interest in social history has added a new dimension to the study of the past . And in the last half ... grown on me that , were I to live long enough , the best use 1 Thomas Traherne : Serious and Pathetical Contemplation of the ...
Page 125
... growing up between the greater feudal barons and the inarticulate peasant mass of the nation . It was an upper middle class composed mainly of descend- ants of the Norman knights who had been enfeoffed as owners - or rather feudal ...
... growing up between the greater feudal barons and the inarticulate peasant mass of the nation . It was an upper middle class composed mainly of descend- ants of the Norman knights who had been enfeoffed as owners - or rather feudal ...
Page 160
... growing prosperity of their society . Behind the royal courts lay ' the community of the realm ' . It consisted not only of barons and prelates but of the lesser land- owners of the shire , of the petty freeholders of the villages and ...
... growing prosperity of their society . Behind the royal courts lay ' the community of the realm ' . It consisted not only of barons and prelates but of the lesser land- owners of the shire , of the petty freeholders of the villages and ...
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