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 103
... seemed incompatible with the social order and discipline which more enlightened European rulers like Henry II were trying to impose on their subjects after the anarchy and lawless violence of the Dark Ages . At a time when , through the ...
... seemed incompatible with the social order and discipline which more enlightened European rulers like Henry II were trying to impose on their subjects after the anarchy and lawless violence of the Dark Ages . At a time when , through the ...
Page 108
... seemed well matched . They had been the complement of one another and now became the antithesis . Each had the same imperious , overbearing will , each was thorough , persistent and electric with restless energy , each had behind him a ...
... seemed well matched . They had been the complement of one another and now became the antithesis . Each had the same imperious , overbearing will , each was thorough , persistent and electric with restless energy , each had behind him a ...
Page 135
... seemed to take a special joy in serving outcasts and sinners . They washed the feet of the unclean and kissed their sores . To the rich monks of the conventional houses , they seemed only vulgar sensationalists and interlopers ...
... seemed to take a special joy in serving outcasts and sinners . They washed the feet of the unclean and kissed their sores . To the rich monks of the conventional houses , they seemed only vulgar sensationalists and interlopers ...
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Silent Vanished Races | 1 |
The Coming of the English | 15 |
The Faith | 24 |
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