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The work traces the region's development from its earliest inhabitants to the fifteenth century by pairing short, illustrated scenes of everyday rural life with clear explanatory chapters. It describes early dwellings, hunting and farming practices, animal husbandry, craft and trade, settlement growth, and the gradual transformation of landscape and economy. Political, legal and religious institutions and the material technologies that shaped daily existence are sketched as well, so readers see how social structures and cultural practices evolved across centuries toward the late medieval period.
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