English Medieval CastlesSimmons-Boardman Publishing Corporation, 1961 - 208 pages |
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Page 108
... contemporary towers in Germany . But from them it is impossible not to see the long line of continuity stretching back , through the fourteenth- and fifteenth - century keeps and pele towers of the far north , the thirteenth- and ...
... contemporary towers in Germany . But from them it is impossible not to see the long line of continuity stretching back , through the fourteenth- and fifteenth - century keeps and pele towers of the far north , the thirteenth- and ...
Page 125
... 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 construction , together with the ...
... 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 construction , together with the ...
Page 170
... contemporary practice , and that a garrison refusing all offers of terms could expect in the end no quarter . ( Listen again to Jordan Fantosme , as the Scots march against Brough , swearing that , " If it is not surrendered to them ...
... contemporary practice , and that a garrison refusing all offers of terms could expect in the end no quarter . ( Listen again to Jordan Fantosme , as the Scots march against Brough , swearing that , " If it is not surrendered to them ...
Contents
Two Early Norman Castles | 23 |
THREE Early Stone Castles | 35 |
FOUR The Perfected Castle | 60 |
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