Set in a Silver Sea: The Island Peoples from Earliest Times to the Fifteenth Century, Volume 1Collins, 1984 - 470 pages |
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... European descendants - beech , elm and hazel , throstle , finch and starling - must have been added in the centuries when the latter were dwelling , in the course of their westward trek , among the forests of central Europe . Similar ...
... European descendants - beech , elm and hazel , throstle , finch and starling - must have been added in the centuries when the latter were dwelling , in the course of their westward trek , among the forests of central Europe . Similar ...
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... Europe to hear the Church's famous doctors lecture on theology and canon law in its cathedral schools and universities . In its heyday in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries , it has been reckoned , one out of every thirty adult males ...
... Europe to hear the Church's famous doctors lecture on theology and canon law in its cathedral schools and universities . In its heyday in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries , it has been reckoned , one out of every thirty adult males ...
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... Europe , drew officers trained in regular habits of routine , business and accountancy and , still more important , in ideals of public service . The monastic officers were called ' obedientiaries ' ; they command- ed because they ...
... Europe , drew officers trained in regular habits of routine , business and accountancy and , still more important , in ideals of public service . The monastic officers were called ' obedientiaries ' ; they command- ed because they ...
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Silent Vanished Races I | 1 |
The Coming of the English | 15 |
The Faith | 24 |
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