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The royal house of Prussia, the Hohenzollerns, had obtained the marquisate of Brandenburg only in the fifteenthcentury; and Brandenburg, with its sterile soil and dreary bogs, was an ambiguous prize—the “sandbox of the Holy Roman Empire.”
FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007
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The royal house of Prussia, the Hohenzollerns, had obtained the marquisate of Brandenburg only in the fifteenthcentury; and Brandenburg, with its sterile soil and dreary bogs, was an ambiguous prize—the “sandbox of the Holy Roman Empire.”
FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007
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The royal house of Prussia, the Hohenzollerns, had obtained the marquisate of Brandenburg only in the fifteenthcentury; and Brandenburg, with its sterile soil and dreary bogs, was an ambiguous prize—the “sandbox of the Holy Roman Empire.”
FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007
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The royal house of Prussia, the Hohenzollerns, had obtained the marquisate of Brandenburg only in the fifteenthcentury; and Brandenburg, with its sterile soil and dreary bogs, was an ambiguous prize—the “sandbox of the Holy Roman Empire.”
FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007
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The royal house of Prussia, the Hohenzollerns, had obtained the marquisate of Brandenburg only in the fifteenthcentury; and Brandenburg, with its sterile soil and dreary bogs, was an ambiguous prize—the “sandbox of the Holy Roman Empire.”
FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007
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For example, Alun Anderson, editor of New Scientist, argued in Brockman's book that the fifteenthcentury Portuguese caravel was the greatest invention.
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This late fifteenthcentury table is set much as a fourteenth-century one would have been.
Savoring The Past Wheaton Barbara Ketcham 1983
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This late fifteenthcentury table is set much as a fourteenth-century one would have been.
Savoring The Past Wheaton Barbara Ketcham 1983
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Maldwyn Mills and Gillian Rogers look at manuscript collections of popular romances, noting how tales, which were composed in the twelfth century for courtly Anglo-Norman audiences, are rendered into English and collected in fifteenthcentury household miscellanies such as the Thornton manuscript.
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