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 44
... towns arose as sentinels to guard the countryside against the Norsemen . The strength of these burghs lay , not in imposing fortifications , which Alfred's ill - educated and much - plundered subjects had neither the wealth nor skill to ...
... towns arose as sentinels to guard the countryside against the Norsemen . The strength of these burghs lay , not in imposing fortifications , which Alfred's ill - educated and much - plundered subjects had neither the wealth nor skill to ...
Page 397
... towns grew , the more unwholesome they became , though , after a time their corporations , alarmed at the rising death - rate , began to issue regulations about street - cleansing and water - supply . Yet , though the towns were dirty ...
... towns grew , the more unwholesome they became , though , after a time their corporations , alarmed at the rising death - rate , began to issue regulations about street - cleansing and water - supply . Yet , though the towns were dirty ...
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... towns of Flanders , Artois , Brabant and Hainault . Though for most of the Middle Ages England was primarily a supplier of raw wool to others , cloth was always manufactured on a small scale for home consumption in most of the larger towns ...
... towns of Flanders , Artois , Brabant and Hainault . Though for most of the Middle Ages England was primarily a supplier of raw wool to others , cloth was always manufactured on a small scale for home consumption in most of the larger towns ...
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