English Medieval CastlesSimmons-Boardman Publishing Corporation, 1961 - 208 pages |
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Page 8
... importance of the castle in medieval life and society de- mands some explanation of why that importance came eventually to decline . The geographical purview of this book is confined to England and Wales , for Scotland , by virtue of ...
... importance of the castle in medieval life and society de- mands some explanation of why that importance came eventually to decline . The geographical purview of this book is confined to England and Wales , for Scotland , by virtue of ...
Page 73
... importance . The domestic no less than the military importance of the keep also declines , for the lord of the castle was now able to move down from its lofty but somewhat inconvenient eminence and dwell more comfortably in spacious ...
... importance . The domestic no less than the military importance of the keep also declines , for the lord of the castle was now able to move down from its lofty but somewhat inconvenient eminence and dwell more comfortably in spacious ...
Page 152
... importance of many and well - placed firing apertures , of battlements and crenella- tion , and the overhanging hoarding or stone machicolation , in this respect again needs no further comment . But perhaps more than anything else some ...
... importance of many and well - placed firing apertures , of battlements and crenella- tion , and the overhanging hoarding or stone machicolation , in this respect again needs no further comment . But perhaps more than anything else some ...
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