English Medieval CastlesSimmons-Boardman Publishing Corporation, 1961 - 208 pages |
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Page 35
... fortress of stone . The type of early castle which we examined in the last chapter was by no means confined to this country . Similar needs , similar patterns of society and similar re- sources produced the same results elsewhere , and ...
... fortress of stone . The type of early castle which we examined in the last chapter was by no means confined to this country . Similar needs , similar patterns of society and similar re- sources produced the same results elsewhere , and ...
Page 85
... 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 reign of John ...
... 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 reign of John ...
Page 90
... fortress . The decline in its military im- portance , therefore , resulted architecturally in an increasing con- centration upon its domestic amenities at the expense or to the neglect of its defences , until , passing through the phase ...
... fortress . The decline in its military im- portance , therefore , resulted architecturally in an increasing con- centration upon its domestic amenities at the expense or to the neglect of its defences , until , passing through the phase ...
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