English Castles, Volume 22B. T. Batsford, 1962 - 207 pages |
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... land . There are few chapters in European history more re- markable or more impressive than that which relates the progress and achievement of the Normans . Themselves originally numbered , as their name clearly shows , among the ...
... land . There are few chapters in European history more re- markable or more impressive than that which relates the progress and achievement of the Normans . Themselves originally numbered , as their name clearly shows , among the ...
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... lands for their own use . Edward I raised his great Welsh for- tresses to hold down his new conquest of Wales , not as strongholds merely but as the active centres of ... land . The Castle in Peace THOUGH designed pre - eminently for 172.
... lands for their own use . Edward I raised his great Welsh for- tresses to hold down his new conquest of Wales , not as strongholds merely but as the active centres of ... land . The Castle in Peace THOUGH designed pre - eminently for 172.
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... land , somewhat begs the question of the royal castles , which stood always for something more than the king's position as the largest and ultimate landowner , the primus inter pares or greatest of the magnates of the land . Yet in the ...
... land , somewhat begs the question of the royal castles , which stood always for something more than the king's position as the largest and ultimate landowner , the primus inter pares or greatest of the magnates of the land . Yet in the ...
Contents
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS | 11 |
Introduction | 17 |
Early Stone Castles 35 336 | 35 |
Copyright | |
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amongst attack barbican Beaumaris Bedford Bodiam Bréauté building built Caerphilly Carnarvon Castle Hedingham Castle Rising castle-building castle's castles in Wales centre chamber chapel Château-Gaillard chronicler concentrated concentric castle Conquest contemporary Conway decline defence ditch Dover earl early earthwork Edward England English castles English Medieval Castles entrance example flanking towers fortification fortress fourteenth century garrison gate gatehouse gateway ground plan hall Harlech Henry II inner bailey inner ward keep-and-bailey castle Kenilworth Kidwelly King John king's Kirby Muxloe knights labour later Middle Ages lord machicolated mangonel medieval military architecture Middle Ages military importance moat motte motte-and-bailey motte-and-bailey castle mound Norman Orford outer bailey pele towers perhaps period Pipe Rolls quadrangular raised records reign residence residential Rhuddlan Rochester rôle round royal castles shell keep side siege siege-craft stands stone castle storey strength stronghold Suffolk surviving thirteenth century timber tower keep Tower of London tower-house tury twelfth century walls warfare whole William Windsor