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Page 67
The advantages of the cylindrical or multi - angular shape , however , which we saw applied to the tower keeps towards the end of the twelfth century , were soon applied to mural towers . In the thirteenth century they reach their ...
The advantages of the cylindrical or multi - angular shape , however , which we saw applied to the tower keeps towards the end of the twelfth century , were soon applied to mural towers . In the thirteenth century they reach their ...
Page 85
In the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries , as in all periods of the Middle Ages subsequent to the first century of Norman establishment , fortification and castle - building more commonly took the form of the strengthening and ...
In the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries , as in all periods of the Middle Ages subsequent to the first century of Norman establishment , fortification and castle - building more commonly took the form of the strengthening and ...
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Thus at the episcopal castle of Durham the later fourteenth century saw the enlargement of the hall by Bishop Hatfield ... formed by the drastic conversion and expansion of the existing thirteenth - century residential buildings there .
Thus at the episcopal castle of Durham the later fourteenth century saw the enlargement of the hall by Bishop Hatfield ... formed by the drastic conversion and expansion of the existing thirteenth - century residential buildings there .
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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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