Medieval England, Volume 1Austin Lane Poole Clarendon Press, 1958 - 661 pages Volume 1 looks at the English countryside, domestic and military architecture, warefare, shipping, communications, towns & trade, coinage, clothing, arms & armor, and heraldry. |
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Page 67
... walls had the disadvantage of restrict ing the habitable area of a town or , if suburban building was permitted , of requiring periodical extensions in order to bring the new houses within the fortified enceinte . But even among walled ...
... walls had the disadvantage of restrict ing the habitable area of a town or , if suburban building was permitted , of requiring periodical extensions in order to bring the new houses within the fortified enceinte . But even among walled ...
Page 142
... walls , or to open a breach in them , or by tunnelling beneath them to bring them down . The first of these objectives might be achieved by simple escalade or by the construction of a mobile wooden tower , which could be moved to the wall ...
... walls , or to open a breach in them , or by tunnelling beneath them to bring them down . The first of these objectives might be achieved by simple escalade or by the construction of a mobile wooden tower , which could be moved to the wall ...
Page 211
... walls follow throughout the line of the Roman walls , and at many points along their course the actual Roman walls still stand , rising sometimes almost to their original height . The principle north , south , and east gates ( 1 ) , ( N ) ...
... walls follow throughout the line of the Roman walls , and at many points along their course the actual Roman walls still stand , rising sometimes almost to their original height . The principle north , south , and east gates ( 1 ) , ( N ) ...
Contents
in Economic History in the University of Oxford | 1 |
land and Fen 1417 4 The Moorlands 1819 5 The Monastic | 7 |
DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE AND TOWNPLAN | 37 |
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