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Perhaps the most striking development in the evolution of the English castle was the change from the stronghold of earthwork and timber to the fortress of stone . The type of early castle which we examined in the last chapter was by no ...
Perhaps the most striking development in the evolution of the English castle was the change from the stronghold of earthwork and timber to the fortress of stone . The type of early castle which we examined in the last chapter was by no ...
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Thus the Dorset fortress of Corfe ( 44 ) , whose keep and inner bailey , the core of the castle , date from the earlier twelfth century , and whose once fine series of domestic buildings within the inner bailey date probably from the ...
Thus the Dorset fortress of Corfe ( 44 ) , whose keep and inner bailey , the core of the castle , date from the earlier twelfth century , and whose once fine series of domestic buildings within the inner bailey date probably from the ...
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The unique feature of the castle from the beginning had been that it was both a residence and a fortress . The decline in its military im- portance , therefore , resulted architecturally in an increasing con- centration upon its ...
The unique feature of the castle from the beginning had been that it was both a residence and a fortress . The decline in its military im- portance , therefore , resulted architecturally in an increasing con- centration upon its ...
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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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