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T CHAPTER ONE Introduction HE art and science of fortification must be amongst the earliest skills of mankind ... to say embellished by the fortifications of almost every race and generation dwelling therein , not excluding our own .
T CHAPTER ONE Introduction HE art and science of fortification must be amongst the earliest skills of mankind ... to say embellished by the fortifications of almost every race and generation dwelling therein , not excluding our own .
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We know , chiefly from archaeological evidence , both that this building was in stone , and that the barons no less than the king were fortify- ing their castles after the same fashion . Yet the transition extends also on both sides of ...
We know , chiefly from archaeological evidence , both that this building was in stone , and that the barons no less than the king were fortify- ing their castles after the same fashion . Yet the transition extends also on both sides of ...
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It was , therefore , the medium rather than the underlying theory of fortification which was changed . The keep - and - bailey castle , like the motte - and - bailey , consisted of the same two component parts in the same relation to ...
It was , therefore , the medium rather than the underlying theory of fortification which was changed . The keep - and - bailey castle , like the motte - and - bailey , consisted of the same two component parts in the same relation to ...
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Contents
Two Early Norman Castles | 23 |
THREE Early Stone Castles | 35 |
FOUR The Perfected Castle | 60 |
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| 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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