That was the year when Fatimid invaders began to build a grand enclosure to house their new mosques and palaces – a private city known to its residents as al-Qahera, and eventually to the world as Cairo.
Harvest, his latest novel, dramatises one of the great under-told narratives of English history: the forced enclosure of open fields and common land from the late medieval era on, whereby subsistence agriculture was replaced by profitable wool production and the peasant farmers dispossessed and displaced.
What will change with enclosure is that sense of balance: "This land," Master Kent says, "has always been much older than ourselves .
The political theorist saw a base of active dissidents fighting against the "second enclosure of the commons," attempting to preserve the internet from corporate control.
A popular fixture in Warsaw for decades, the enclosure is on a busy street, a few hundred metres from the zoo proper.
For all Boyle's insistence that he was presenting a settled, consensual British view, it still looked quite an achievement, given who was sitting in the front row of the politicians' enclosure.
Well, it was until the poor creature was led out of its enclosure and its food was dropped on the ground, and everyone laughed as they watched the hungry camel scarf its rations.
The villagers' suspicion and scapegoating of the trio cowering in a thrown-together shack on the common land sets in train a series of violent events that empties the village and only smoothes the path to enclosure.
On the day of the semi‑final against Liverpool, Gregory posted a picture of himself next to the Villa dugout at Wembley, titled "The winners' enclosure".
In a pathetic little enclosure in Edinburgh Zoo, risibly done up to resemble a scrap of rural China, the suffering of the giant pandas continues.
But perhaps Simmons's bullish shaven-headed jazz supremo will join them in the winner's enclosure or perhaps everyone will be crowded out by the exotic exquisites of the Grand Budapest Hotel.
