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 136
... poor and lived among the poor , they started to deflect Christian alms and legacies from the over - endowed monasteries to institutions which relieved want , sickness and suffering . They introduced into the vernacular speech words of ...
... poor and lived among the poor , they started to deflect Christian alms and legacies from the over - endowed monasteries to institutions which relieved want , sickness and suffering . They introduced into the vernacular speech words of ...
Page 147
... poor . Sung as ballads and passed from mouth to mouth in hedgerow and ale - house , such tales constituted a new ideal of chivalry : a chivalry so far unknown in feudal Europe , for it glorified the lowly against the great . Simon's own ...
... poor . Sung as ballads and passed from mouth to mouth in hedgerow and ale - house , such tales constituted a new ideal of chivalry : a chivalry so far unknown in feudal Europe , for it glorified the lowly against the great . Simon's own ...
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... poor . With the spread of civilization and luxury , their mission , though ostensibly the same , had changed . By the fourteenth century they had ceased to be only evangelists to the poor and had become as well confessors to the rich ...
... poor . With the spread of civilization and luxury , their mission , though ostensibly the same , had changed . By the fourteenth century they had ceased to be only evangelists to the poor and had become as well confessors to the rich ...
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Silent Vanished Races | 1 |
The Coming of the English | 15 |
The Faith | 24 |
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