English Castles, Volume 22B. T. Batsford, 1962 - 207 pages |
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Page 37
... stone castle , which we may roughly assign to the second half of the twelfth and first half of the thirteenth centuries when it was most common , is best described as the keep - and - bailey castle . Generally it was not only the ...
... stone castle , which we may roughly assign to the second half of the twelfth and first half of the thirteenth centuries when it was most common , is best described as the keep - and - bailey castle . Generally it was not only the ...
Page 42
... castle be taken . It was also , in the great majority of cases , the residence of the lord of the castle . The keep of the keep- and - bailey castle , therefore , had exactly the same rôle as the motte of the motte - and - bailey , and ...
... castle be taken . It was also , in the great majority of cases , the residence of the lord of the castle . The keep of the keep- and - bailey castle , therefore , had exactly the same rôle as the motte of the motte - and - bailey , and ...
Page 62
... castle designed emphatically on the old keep - and - bailey plan ( p . 63 ) . The typical keep - and - bailey castle of the late twelfth or early thirteenth centuries had , however , its military weak- nesses . It was two - piece in ...
... castle designed emphatically on the old keep - and - bailey plan ( p . 63 ) . The typical keep - and - bailey castle of the late twelfth or early thirteenth centuries had , however , its military weak- nesses . It was two - piece in ...
Contents
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS | 11 |
Introduction | 17 |
Early Stone Castles 35 336 | 35 |
Copyright | |
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