Medieval Frontier
Tebrake, William H.![Medieval Frontier](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/150/1503123/CHSBZCOP031503123.jpg)
The story of Rijnland, a small strip of coastal lowland in the western Netherlands, is part of the legendary Dutch struggle against encroaching water. Rijnland was for centuries a stretch of uninhabited peat bogs and sand dunes. The reclamation and colonization processes that eventually transformed these remote marshes into a commercialized agricultural center form the heart of this book, which chronicles events from A.D. 950 to 1350. Unlike m...