The Early Norman Castles of the British IslesJ. Murray, 1912 - 408 pages |
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Page 72
... Fulk Nerra , Count of Anjou , about the year 994 ; its ruins still exist . But we are concerned more particularly here with the origin of the motte - and - bailey castle . The exact place or time of its first appearance is still a ...
... Fulk Nerra , Count of Anjou , about the year 994 ; its ruins still exist . But we are concerned more particularly here with the origin of the motte - and - bailey castle . The exact place or time of its first appearance is still a ...
Page 73
Ella S. Armitage. FULK NERRA 73 le Vieil , where , at a date which the modern biographer of Fulk Nerra fixes at 1010 , we learn that this same Count of Anjou built a castle on the western side of the hill Mont - Glonne , at St Florent le ...
Ella S. Armitage. FULK NERRA 73 le Vieil , where , at a date which the modern biographer of Fulk Nerra fixes at 1010 , we learn that this same Count of Anjou built a castle on the western side of the hill Mont - Glonne , at St Florent le ...
Page 74
... Fulk Nerra the inventor of the motte type of castle , for independently of his fame in military archi- tecture , he ... Fulk Nerra . Thibault - le - Tricheur , who was Count of Blois and Chartres from 932 to 962 , was also a great ...
... Fulk Nerra the inventor of the motte type of castle , for independently of his fame in military archi- tecture , he ... Fulk Nerra . Thibault - le - Tricheur , who was Count of Blois and Chartres from 932 to 962 , was also a great ...
Page 79
... Fulk Nerra's keep at Langeais ; but the devastations of the Northmen had decimated the population of Gaul ; labour must have been dear , and skilled masons hard to find . In these social and economic reasons we have sufficient cause for ...
... Fulk Nerra's keep at Langeais ; but the devastations of the Northmen had decimated the population of Gaul ; labour must have been dear , and skilled masons hard to find . In these social and economic reasons we have sufficient cause for ...
Page 84
... Fulk Nerra's castles and the Roman roads of Anjou and Touraine . 2 See some excellent remarks on this subject in Mr W. St John Hope's > paper on " English Fortresses " in Arch . Journ . , lx . , 72-90 . 3 Only a very small number of ...
... Fulk Nerra's castles and the Roman roads of Anjou and Touraine . 2 See some excellent remarks on this subject in Mr W. St John Hope's > paper on " English Fortresses " in Arch . Journ . , lx . , 72-90 . 3 Only a very small number of ...
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