English Castles, Volume 22B. T. Batsford, 1962 - 207 pages |
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... less than satisfactory because nothing better was available ) . Almost all these corrections result from research carried out by many scholars in the last few years , and I am grateful especially to Mr. H. M. Colvin , Mr. A. J. Taylor ...
... less than satisfactory because nothing better was available ) . Almost all these corrections result from research carried out by many scholars in the last few years , and I am grateful especially to Mr. H. M. Colvin , Mr. A. J. Taylor ...
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... less and less frequently . Gen- erally speaking , from the latter half of the fourteenth cen- tury , though somewhat more tardily in the far north and in Wales , the military importance of the castle began to decline . The complex ...
... less and less frequently . Gen- erally speaking , from the latter half of the fourteenth cen- tury , though somewhat more tardily in the far north and in Wales , the military importance of the castle began to decline . The complex ...
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... less an important change . From the thirteenth century on- wards rebellion became less the result of personal grievance and more the expression of a wider political opposition . The undoubted personal grievances of the magnates who rose ...
... less an important change . From the thirteenth century on- wards rebellion became less the result of personal grievance and more the expression of a wider political opposition . The undoubted personal grievances of the magnates who rose ...
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