Set in a Silver Sea: The Island Peoples from Earliest Times to the Fifteenth Century, Volume 1Collins, 1984 - 470 pages |
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... feudal knight added to the problem of its government . If he was invulnerable to his country's foes , he was equally so to its rulers and could become a scourge to everyone within reach of his strong arm . He lived for war and by it ...
... feudal knight added to the problem of its government . If he was invulnerable to his country's foes , he was equally so to its rulers and could become a scourge to everyone within reach of his strong arm . He lived for war and by it ...
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... feudal compact and gave his vassals the right universally recognised by feudal law to renounce their allegiance , it was not necessary to dissolve the bonds of political society and disintegrate the realm . Magna Carta was a substitute ...
... feudal compact and gave his vassals the right universally recognised by feudal law to renounce their allegiance , it was not necessary to dissolve the bonds of political society and disintegrate the realm . Magna Carta was a substitute ...
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... feudal lords had tallaged the towns and markets of their demesnes ; it was for this that they had founded them . But times had changed , and merchants were no longer the helpless , half - emancipated villeins they had been before the ...
... feudal lords had tallaged the towns and markets of their demesnes ; it was for this that they had founded them . But times had changed , and merchants were no longer the helpless , half - emancipated villeins they had been before the ...
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Silent Vanished Races I | 1 |
The Coming of the English | 15 |
The Faith | 24 |
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