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2 days ago · The Discovery of Mankind: Atlantic Encounters in the Age of Columbus. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 2008, ISBN: 9780300125825; 448pp.; Price: £26.00. At the start of this century, Britons were polled about which century was the worst century of the last millennium. They alighted on the 14th century as the century when the four horsemen ...
2 days ago · The 15th-century Portuguese exploration of the African coast is commonly regarded as the harbinger of European colonialism. In 1452, Pope Nicholas V issued the papal bull Dum Diversas , granting Afonso V of Portugal the right to reduce any "Saracens, pagans and any other unbelievers" to hereditary slavery which legitimized slave trade under ...
5 days ago · Full-text and page images of several hundred American periodicals of the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries. Digital collection of American periodicals published between 1691 and 1877. Provides partially searchable digital images of about 150,000 books, primarily British, printed in the eighteenth century.
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4 days ago · The 15th century, by contrast, was an unhappy time for property owners. The value of the Goodramgate property of the vicars choral, for example, began to fall about 1415 and had been reduced by 40 per cent. in 1460; while the total of the vicars' rents in York fell by 55 per cent. between 1399 and 1472 and by 66 per cent. by the end of the century.
2 days ago · The Wars of the Roses, known at the time and in following centuries as the Civil Wars, were a series of civil wars fought over control of the English throne from 1455 to 1487. The wars were fought between supporters of the House of Lancaster and House of York , two rival cadet branches of the royal House of Plantagenet .
5 days ago · Cloth finishers are recorded in 1448 and 1475, and there were fulling mills at Holford and Erdington in the late 14th century and early 15th century. (fn. 94) The aulnage accounts for the fiscal years 1397-8 and 1405-6 show that 44 and 21 cloths respectively were exposed for sale in Birmingham.
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4 days ago · Major changes in organisation, tactics and personnel which occurred at about that time show how Welsh military society began to react to these changes which, it is convincingly argued, were to have an influence on both the outbreak and the outcome of Owain Glyndwr’s revolt against English rule in the early years of the 15th century.
