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		Rural England 1086-1135
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		Reginald Lennard
		Oxford University Press 1997 409 pages		Qty
		Hardback 0198212720
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	Lennard's study of the social and economic conditions of life in rural England during the Norman period deals with the geographical incidence of feudal landlords' power; with methods of estate management; local and regional variations in rural economies; and with the holdings and obligations of the peasantry. Flour-mills, sheep-farming and woodland pig-farming are among the topics considered, and there is a chapter devoted to village churches and clergy and their endowments. (1959)
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		Ducal Brittany 1364-1399
		Relations with England and France during the Reign of Duke		Sandpiper Editions
		Michael Jones
		Oxford University Press 1997 250 pages		Qty
		Hardback Illustrated 0198218354
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	Traditionally John IV, Duke of Brittany (1364-1399) has been considered an Anglophile. This book re-examines his role in Anglo- French relations through a full study of the diplomatic, administrative and military evidence. It suggests that the Duke's policies were designed principally to create an autonomous duchy. Jones looks in particular at how John's upbringing in England and early dependence upon Edward III affected his policies towards both England and his legal sovereigns in France once he became Duke. (1970)
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		The King's Pardon for Homicide
		Before AD 1307		Sandpiper Editions
		Naomi D Hurnard
		Oxford University Press 1997 394 pages		Qty
		Hardback 0198223129
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	Hurnard's study seeks to explain why the man who committed homicide by misadventure or in self-defence needed a pardon. It examines the working of the system of pardoning in England in the 13th century, how it affected attempts by the victims' kinsmen to secure reparation or retribution, and the risk to public order from the king's clemency to those who had killed feloniously. Hurnard also deals with the development of inquisitions into alleged excuses, and with the closely related history of the writ de odio et atia. (1969)
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		King, Parliament and Public Finance in Medieval England
		to 1369		Sandpiper Editions
		GL Harriss
		Oxford University Press 1997 554 pages		Qty
		Hardback 0198224354
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	In this study, Harris describes the emergence of public finance in England in the 12th and 14th centuries, shows it to be an aspect of the development of a nation state, and traces it as a theme in the political relations of the king and his subjects. In particular, he looks at the financial aspects of the crises of 1297, 1311, and 1340- 1, and contends that the very constraints on the Commons to meet the needs of the state hastened their political maturity. (1975)
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		Sophocles' Trachiniae
		With Introduction and Commentary by		Sandpiper Editions
		M Davies (Edited by)
		Oxford University Press 1997 292 pages		Qty
		Hardback 0198148992
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	Trachiniae or Women of Trachis is the tragedy of Deianeira's innocent and ill-fated attempt to win back her husband, Heracles, after he has sacked the city of Oechalia and fallen in love with the daughter of the defeated king. This edition presents the Greek text with Davies' thought-provoking introduction, which discusses topics such as the treatment of the hero Heracles and the story's pre-Sophoclean tradition, and an extensive commentary covering textual problems and wider issues of interpretation. (1991).
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