Adam Fox Oral and Literate agriculture in England 1500-1700.

Adam Fox Oral and Literate agriculture in England 1500-1700. (Oxford Studies in Social History.) strange York: Oxford University Press. 2000 Pp xiii, 497 $7400 ISBN 0-19-820512-0

Adam Fox's Oral and Literate agriculture in England 1500-1700 is a feast of a volume Opening it at random the same finds, for example, how tenaciously persons clung to objects symbolizing customary rights (sod of earth, swords or horns) in lieu of written feats (p. 264), how they sometimes marked boundaries with perambulations accompanied by means of beating small boys at strategic stopping points (p 269) for what cause nursery ...

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