The Medieval Foundation of EnglandDoubleday, 1967 - 270 Seiten Survey of England's social life, habits, beliefs and political development, from earliest times to the early fifteenth century, A.D. |
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... island geographically for eight thousand years , she has been one strategically for less than a thousand . No island was at first so easy to invade ; none more tempting to invaders . Iberian and Neolithic men , Bronze Age pastoral ...
... island geographically for eight thousand years , she has been one strategically for less than a thousand . No island was at first so easy to invade ; none more tempting to invaders . Iberian and Neolithic men , Bronze Age pastoral ...
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... island climate and situation shaped English history . Long skull and broad mingled , short build and tall , dark pigmentation and blonde ; so did the instincts and memories of a score of races . Such inter- mixture in so small an island ...
... island climate and situation shaped English history . Long skull and broad mingled , short build and tall , dark pigmentation and blonde ; so did the instincts and memories of a score of races . Such inter- mixture in so small an island ...
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... island beyond the sunset . From Frisia and the mouths of the Rhine , Ems and Weser , from Schleswig and Angle in what is now Holstein and Denmark , they poured up the estuaries and rivers of southern Britain to plunder and slay . The island ...
... island beyond the sunset . From Frisia and the mouths of the Rhine , Ems and Weser , from Schleswig and Angle in what is now Holstein and Denmark , they poured up the estuaries and rivers of southern Britain to plunder and slay . The island ...
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Rude Settlers | 1 |
The Cross and the Sword | 23 |
The Norman Discipline | 51 |
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