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The castle still comprised two distinct component parts , the larger enclosure of the bailey , and the citadel , now the keep . Wherever the keep stood within the castle , and whatever its type , shell or tower , square tower or round ...
The castle still comprised two distinct component parts , the larger enclosure of the bailey , and the citadel , now the keep . Wherever the keep stood within the castle , and whatever its type , shell or tower , square tower or round ...
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were held , to the castle that a man repaired to plead his suit , present his services or pay his taxes , and through its gates , watched by the porter , passed a stream of litigants and supplicants , tenants and bailiffs ...
were held , to the castle that a man repaired to plead his suit , present his services or pay his taxes , and through its gates , watched by the porter , passed a stream of litigants and supplicants , tenants and bailiffs ...
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also that within this wider change in the conduct of war , the castle , in the very perfection it had achieved by the end of the thirteenth century , contributed something to its own military decline . " A castle like Caerphilly " ...
also that within this wider change in the conduct of war , the castle , in the very perfection it had achieved by the end of the thirteenth century , contributed something to its own military decline . " A castle like Caerphilly " ...
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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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