Set in a Silver Sea: The Island Peoples from Earliest Times to the Fifteenth Century, Volume 1Collins, 1984 - 470 pages |
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... living and , above all , in social and political organisation impossible in societies torn by perpetual strife , fear and mutual destruction . Everything educative and enduring in medieval Britain was the legacy of the Christian Church ...
... living and , above all , in social and political organisation impossible in societies torn by perpetual strife , fear and mutual destruction . Everything educative and enduring in medieval Britain was the legacy of the Christian Church ...
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... living here when it was cut off from Europe . At that time it was almost completely covered by dense forest , mostly of gloomy conifers grown up since the last Ice Age but , as a result of the milder oceanic winters since the island's ...
... living here when it was cut off from Europe . At that time it was almost completely covered by dense forest , mostly of gloomy conifers grown up since the last Ice Age but , as a result of the milder oceanic winters since the island's ...
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... living were scarce able to bury the dead ' , and ' the men of Gloucester would not suffer the Bristol men to have access to them ' . But no constable's guard could stop the swift - running rats from infecting one another , or their ...
... living were scarce able to bury the dead ' , and ' the men of Gloucester would not suffer the Bristol men to have access to them ' . But no constable's guard could stop the swift - running rats from infecting one another , or their ...
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