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The second point which it seemed necessary to emphasise is the essential continuity of English medieval military architecture . Only very rarely can we point to a castle as a complete example of the fortification of this or that period ...
The second point which it seemed necessary to emphasise is the essential continuity of English medieval military architecture . Only very rarely can we point to a castle as a complete example of the fortification of this or that period ...
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ity of the Middle Ages , to establish in some measure who built what , and to add to the roll of English architects , which too commonly began with Inigo Jones or Wren , some of the names of the consummate masters of the medieval past .
ity of the Middle Ages , to establish in some measure who built what , and to add to the roll of English architects , which too commonly began with Inigo Jones or Wren , some of the names of the consummate masters of the medieval past .
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with which we have been concerned in this chapter was reproduced on a greater or lesser scale on countless occasions throughout those centuries , and the building and near - continuous improvement of the hundreds of castles in medieval ...
with which we have been concerned in this chapter was reproduced on a greater or lesser scale on countless occasions throughout those centuries , and the building and near - continuous improvement of the hundreds of castles in medieval ...
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| 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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