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Certainly they were not anachronisms in their time nor conscious revivals of the tower keeps of old , and Tattershall has direct affinities with contemporary towers in Germany . But from them it is impossible not to see the long line of ...
Certainly they were not anachronisms in their time nor conscious revivals of the tower keeps of old , and Tattershall has direct affinities with contemporary towers in Germany . But from them it is impossible not to see the long line of ...
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31 , 68 ) , as the finest contemporary castle in Western Christendom , and one raised by a King of England in what were then his dominions , would demand our attention even if the amount of surviving evidence con- cerning its ...
31 , 68 ) , as the finest contemporary castle in Western Christendom , and one raised by a King of England in what were then his dominions , would demand our attention even if the amount of surviving evidence con- cerning its ...
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It may that these contrasting events reflect established contemporary practice , and that a garrison refusing all offers of terms could expect in the end no quarter . ( Listen again to Jordan Fantosme ...
It may that these contrasting events reflect established contemporary practice , and that a garrison refusing all offers of terms could expect in the end no quarter . ( Listen again to Jordan Fantosme ...
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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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