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Cornage and Drengage

By Lapsley G.T.

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english
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Topic
History
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2017-08-07 07:01:42
Исторические дисциплины;История стран Европы и Аме

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The American Historical Review. 1904. Vol. 9. №4. P. 670-695.In the medieval records, whether national or local, that relate to the four northern counties of England, the term cornage occurs with some frequency from the twelfth to the fourteenth centuries. The question of the origin and nature of the institution to which this term applied has been discussed with various degrees of learning and acumen since the time of Littleton without, unhappily, producing any explanation that has passed unquestioned. The truth is that the documents at our disposal appear to contradict one another, to lack self-consistency. The term cornage would seem to describe now one thing, now another, according to the date of the document or the region from which it emanates, and yet there is evidence of an original and underlying unity which cannot be disregarded.

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