English Medieval CastlesSimmons-Boardman Publishing Corporation, 1961 - 208 pages |
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Page 24
... caused to be made , and poor men to be greatly oppress- ed . " Something of the impact of the new castles and new ways of the invader upon the old society of the Anglo - Saxons is echoed in the terse record by Domesday Book ( 1086 ) of ...
... caused to be made , and poor men to be greatly oppress- ed . " Something of the impact of the new castles and new ways of the invader upon the old society of the Anglo - Saxons is echoed in the terse record by Domesday Book ( 1086 ) of ...
Page 89
... caused any signi- ficant revival of castle - building on the old scale , for warfare by then had ceased to turn upon the castle and had become largely a matter of battles in the open field . Finally , we must emphasise here that the ...
... caused any signi- ficant revival of castle - building on the old scale , for warfare by then had ceased to turn upon the castle and had become largely a matter of battles in the open field . Finally , we must emphasise here that the ...
Page 118
... caused to be made , and poor men to be greatly oppressed . " In course of time the raising of forced labour became constitutionally respectable , by being attached to the ancient obligation upon Saxon tenantry to aid works upon ...
... caused to be made , and poor men to be greatly oppressed . " In course of time the raising of forced labour became constitutionally respectable , by being attached to the ancient obligation upon Saxon tenantry to aid works upon ...
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