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Though not to be compared in sheer power and size with , for example , the Edwardian castles in Wales , in many respects these quadrangular castles of the late fourteenth century can be regarded as the last and most logically satisfying ...
Though not to be compared in sheer power and size with , for example , the Edwardian castles in Wales , in many respects these quadrangular castles of the late fourteenth century can be regarded as the last and most logically satisfying ...
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For with the late fourteenth and fifteenth centuries strong and comprehensively fortified castles become the exception so far as new works are concerned , and we enter the era of the fortified manor , the half - way house between the ...
For with the late fourteenth and fifteenth centuries strong and comprehensively fortified castles become the exception so far as new works are concerned , and we enter the era of the fortified manor , the half - way house between the ...
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It is especially interesting to notice that amongst the military and quasi - military architecture of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries we still find at times the tower keep , or something very like it .
It is especially interesting to notice that amongst the military and quasi - military architecture of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries we still find at times the tower keep , or something very like it .
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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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