 | England under the Norman and Angevin Kings: 1075-1225 (New Oxford History of England) by Robert Bartlett
Buy new: £22.40 / Used from: £19.99 If you only buy one book on 12th century England, make it this one.
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 | Shaping Medieval Landscapes: Settlement, Society, Environment by Tom Williamson
Buy used from: £230.81 One of the most up-to-date studies of medieval landscape archaeology.
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 | The History of the Countryside by Oliver Rackham
Buy new: £9.81 / Used from: £5.99 An absolute classic. Rackham's knowledgeable, opinionated and always highly readable.
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 | Standards of Living in the Later Middle Ages: Social Change in England C. 1200-1520 (Cambridge Medieval Textbooks) by Christopher Dyer
Buy new: £25.64 / Used from: £11.49 An essential reference work.
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 | Medieval Housing (Archaeology of Medieval Britain) by Jane Grenville
Buy used from: £64.31 An excellent introduction to the topic.
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 | The Countryside of Medieval England by ASTILLE
Buy used from: £49.08 A little dated now, but still the best archaeological book on medieval agriculture.
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 | Interpreting the Landscape: Landscape, Archaeology and Local History by Michael Aston
Buy new: £21.99 / Used from: £13.25 The British landscape from the Stone Age to the present, and how to decipher it.
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| English society in the early Middle Ages (1066-1307) (Pelican history of England series;vol.3) by Doris Mary Stenton
Buy used from: £0.01 Dated, but inexpensive and highly readable - and small enough to slip into a coat pocket.
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 | Rural England: An Illustrated History of the Landscape (Illustrated Histories)
Buy used from: £17.96 An good general survey from some of the leading experts.
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| English Heritage Book of Wharram Percy: Deserted Mediaeval Village by Maurice Beresford
Buy used from: £12.25 If you're interested in medieval villages, there's no escaping Wharram Percy.
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| Rural Settlement in Britain (Studies in historical geography) by Brian K. Roberts
Buy new: £9.00 / Used from: £0.01 Village layouts from the acknowledged master of the field.
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| A Medieval capital and its grain supply: Agrarian production and distribution in the London region c.1300 (Historical geography research series)
Buy used from: £28.00 Almost impossible to find - but well worth the effort. Packed with statistics on grain yields, nutrition, transport costs and more.
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 | Domesday Book: A Complete Translation (Penguin Classics) by none
Buy new: £16.03 / Used from: £10.99 Domesday studies are fraught with perils, but there's no denying the book's importance. This has the complete text, translated into English..
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 | The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
Buy used from: £0.01 Because you sometimes need a break from textbooks. Twee and shallow, yes, but also fun...
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