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 197
... million people the same barbaric and pastoral life as their ancestors a thousand years before . Shepherds , graziers , crofters , fishermen , they were as accustomed to violence as to wind and rain and , like the Spartans , were nour ...
... million people the same barbaric and pastoral life as their ancestors a thousand years before . Shepherds , graziers , crofters , fishermen , they were as accustomed to violence as to wind and rain and , like the Spartans , were nour ...
Page 296
... million men and women who were bound by birth to the soil and com- pelled to perform unpaid menial services for its lord . They could only gain release by a formal grant of manumission or by flight from their homes and fields to some ...
... million men and women who were bound by birth to the soil and com- pelled to perform unpaid menial services for its lord . They could only gain release by a formal grant of manumission or by flight from their homes and fields to some ...
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... million fleeces went abroad every year , mostly to northern Italy and the 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 ...
... million fleeces went abroad every year , mostly to northern Italy and the 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 ...
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Silent Vanished Races | 1 |
The Coming of the English | 15 |
The Faith | 24 |
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