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The very few castles which are known to have existed before the Conquest ― Hereford , Richard's Castle and Ewyas Harold , all in Herefordshire , and Claver- ing in Essex - were raised by certain Norman favourites of Edward the Confessor ...
The very few castles which are known to have existed before the Conquest ― Hereford , Richard's Castle and Ewyas Harold , all in Herefordshire , and Claver- ing in Essex - were raised by certain Norman favourites of Edward the Confessor ...
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... incorporating at the outset the most recent advances in military architecture , such instances are comparatively few , and the majority of English castles were founded in the first century after the Norman Conquest .
... incorporating at the outset the most recent advances in military architecture , such instances are comparatively few , and the majority of English castles were founded in the first century after the Norman Conquest .
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66 and ease with which castles were raised by kings and barons alike in the first century of the Norman Conquest . Nor can the cost of this type of castle - building have been considerable . Indeed in the earliest days we may be fairly ...
66 and ease with which castles were raised by kings and barons alike in the first century of the Norman Conquest . Nor can the cost of this type of castle - building have been considerable . Indeed in the earliest days we may be fairly ...
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Contents
Two Early Norman Castles | 23 |
THREE Early Stone Castles | 35 |
FOUR The Perfected Castle | 60 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | English Medieval Castles |
| Author | Reginald Allen Brown |
| Publisher | Simmons-Boardman Publishing Corporation, 1961 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 24 Feb 2007 |
| Length | 208 pages |
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