English Medieval CastlesSimmons-Boardman Publishing Corporation, 1961 - 208 pages |
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... King John against a baronial garrison , was the greatest single military event in the civil war which ended that king's reign and which also produced Magna Carta as an unsuccessful peace treaty . It is most notable , perhaps , as a ...
... King John against a baronial garrison , was the greatest single military event in the civil war which ended that king's reign and which also produced Magna Carta as an unsuccessful peace treaty . It is most notable , perhaps , as a ...
Page 160
... King John in the civil wars that ended that king's reign . In the ensuing peace his power and high - handed habits accorded ill with the settled government which the new young king , Henry III , and his ministers sought to establish ...
... King John in the civil wars that ended that king's reign . In the ensuing peace his power and high - handed habits accorded ill with the settled government which the new young king , Henry III , and his ministers sought to establish ...
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... king , how he gave his ring to a pilgrim , to be painted in like manner . Though Winchester may be exceptional in ... John's kitchens with their great oven for two or three oxen being now apparently out of date ) ; to wainscot the chambers of ...
... king , how he gave his ring to a pilgrim , to be painted in like manner . Though Winchester may be exceptional in ... John's kitchens with their great oven for two or three oxen being now apparently out of date ) ; to wainscot the chambers of ...
Contents
Two Early Norman Castles | 23 |
THREE Early Stone Castles | 35 |
FOUR The Perfected Castle | 60 |
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amongst attack barbican barons Bayeux Tapestry Beaumaris Bedford Bréauté building built Caerphilly Carnarvon Castle Hedingham Castle Rising castle-building castle's castles in Wales centre chamber chapel Château-Gaillard chronicler concentric castle Conquest contemporary Conway decline defence ditch Dover Durham Earl early earthwork Edward eleventh century England English castle English medieval entrance example feature flanking towers fortification fortress fourteenth century garrison gate gatehouse gateway Ground plan hall Harlech Henry II inner bailey keep-and-bailey castle Kenilworth Kent Kidwelly King John king's Kirby Muxloe labour later Middle Ages lord machicolated mangonel medieval castle 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 ramparts records reign residence residential Rochester rôle royal castles shell keep side siege siege-craft stands stone castle storey strength stronghold Suffolk surviving thirteenth century timber Tower of London tower-house twelfth century warfare whole Windsor Yorkshire