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A History of the County of Wiltshire: XVIII: Cricklade and Environs
ISBN: 9781904356189 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Cricklade, the Anglo-Saxon borough fortified by Alfred against the Danes, is the market town at the heart of this volume. As a notorious rotten borough, its corruption influenced the passing of the 1832 Parliamentary Reform Act. The town and the surrounding parishes described here are bordered by Gloucestershire to the north and Swindon to the East. They extend along the upper Thames valley and over the Wiltshire claylands to the limestone ridge in the south. The royal forest of Braydon covered much of the area in the middle ages and provided extensive grazing for livestock. Although...
Cricklade, the Anglo-Saxon borough fortified by Alfred against the Danes, is the market town at the heart of this volume. As a notorious rotten boroug...
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544,24 |
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Gilds in the Medieval Countryside: Social and Religious Change in Cambridgeshire C.1350-1558
ISBN: 9780851156170 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 189 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This study focuses on religious gilds or fraternities in both the densely settled shire and the sparsely populated fens of Cambridgeshire, from their apparent proliferation in the mid-fourteenth century to their dissolution under Edward VI in 1558, in order to examine social and religious change during the period. Gilds reflected the social hierarchies of their communities, exerting social control and fostering mutual charity in life and commemoration after death; they also made a substantial contribution to the religious and economic life of the parish. Dr Bainbridge examines lay responses...
This study focuses on religious gilds or fraternities in both the densely settled shire and the sparsely populated fens of Cambridgeshire, from their ...
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321,59 |