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In appearance the typical early Norman castle , like the earliest castles on the Continent , was far removed from the stately edifice of stone which we associate with the very word " castle " . It employed the oldest of all methods of ...
In appearance the typical early Norman castle , like the earliest castles on the Continent , was far removed from the stately edifice of stone which we associate with the very word " castle " . It employed the oldest of all methods of ...
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Notwithstanding their forbidding external appearance , the residential aspect of the tower keeps is usually apparent within them , however spartan by modern standards they may seem , while the fact that Edward III built new lodgings ...
Notwithstanding their forbidding external appearance , the residential aspect of the tower keeps is usually apparent within them , however spartan by modern standards they may seem , while the fact that Edward III built new lodgings ...
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For in their building architects and those who commissioned them were increasingly released from the stern necessities of defence , and en- abled to concentrate on domestic comfort and dignity with an eye also to aesthetic appearance .
For in their building architects and those who commissioned them were increasingly released from the stern necessities of defence , and en- abled to concentrate on domestic comfort and dignity with an eye also to aesthetic appearance .
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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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