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Page 100
... elsewhere from the late fourteenth century onwards , as the military importance of the castle declines , so castle - building shows an increasing concentration on domestic amenities at the expense of fortification .
... elsewhere from the late fourteenth century onwards , as the military importance of the castle declines , so castle - building shows an increasing concentration on domestic amenities at the expense of fortification .
Page 105
... fortified manor to the Tudor country mansions with their faint echoes of a past military tradition , we have left behind the great castles standing in their hundreds throughout the English kingdom of the early fourteenth century .
... fortified manor to the Tudor country mansions with their faint echoes of a past military tradition , we have left behind the great castles standing in their hundreds throughout the English kingdom of the early fourteenth century .
Page 107
It is especially interesting to notice that amongst the military and quasi - military architecture of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries we still find at times the tower keep , or something very like it .
It is especially interesting to notice that amongst the military and quasi - military architecture of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries we still find at times the tower keep , or something very like it .
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Bibliographic information
| Title | English Castles Volume 21 of Batsford paperbacks |
| Author | Reginald Allen Brown |
| Edition | revised |
| Publisher | B. T. Batsford, 1962 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 14 Jun 2008 |
| Length | 207 pages |
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