English Castles, Volume 22B. T. Batsford, 1962 - 207 pages |
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Page 39
... least re- markable features of that remarkable work . The particular attention paid to the defence of the gate in this as in all periods of the Middle Ages provides us with one small but precise example of the general transition from ...
... least re- markable features of that remarkable work . The particular attention paid to the defence of the gate in this as in all periods of the Middle Ages provides us with one small but precise example of the general transition from ...
Page 79
... least inaccessible approach . There is no sec- ond main gateway at Harlech , probably because the ele- vated site rendered it impracticable , and probably for the same reason no elaborate series of flanking towers was thought necessary ...
... least inaccessible approach . There is no sec- ond main gateway at Harlech , probably because the ele- vated site rendered it impracticable , and probably for the same reason no elaborate series of flanking towers was thought necessary ...
Page 116
... least part of the royal revenues and at least part of the royal expenditure therefrom . Year after year upon the Pipe Rolls of Henry II and his sons Richard I and John work upon royal castles throughout the realm is entered , and castle ...
... least part of the royal revenues and at least part of the royal expenditure therefrom . Year after year upon the Pipe Rolls of Henry II and his sons Richard I and John work upon royal castles throughout the realm is entered , and castle ...
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