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1 L CHAPTER SIX Castle - building N the last four chapters we have traced the architectural develop- ment of the English castle from its Norman origins in the mid- eleventh century to the triumphant culmination of the late thirteenth ...
1 L CHAPTER SIX Castle - building N the last four chapters we have traced the architectural develop- ment of the English castle from its Norman origins in the mid- eleventh century to the triumphant culmination of the late thirteenth ...
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The total recorded ex- penditure upon the building of Orford between 1165 and 1173 amounts to just over £ 1,400 ... It is probably more accurate to express the time taken to build Orford as eight seasons rather than eight years ...
The total recorded ex- penditure upon the building of Orford between 1165 and 1173 amounts to just over £ 1,400 ... It is probably more accurate to express the time taken to build Orford as eight seasons rather than eight years ...
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The examples of castle - building we have so far chosen have been necessarily few and arbitrary , but they have included some of the greatest works undertaken , and with Edward I's operations in Wales we have seen something of the means ...
The examples of castle - building we have so far chosen have been necessarily few and arbitrary , but they have included some of the greatest works undertaken , and with Edward I's operations in Wales we have seen something of the means ...
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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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