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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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1475 ) , and the late fourteenth - century Nunney ( 62 ) and Old Wardour , both previously mentioned . The conservatism of these late medieval keeps , or , more properly perhaps , tower - houses , has recently been denied .
1475 ) , and the late fourteenth - century Nunney ( 62 ) and Old Wardour , both previously mentioned . The conservatism of these late medieval keeps , or , more properly perhaps , tower - houses , has recently been denied .
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But of all the royal castleworks of the late twelfth and early thirteenth cen- turies in England , one , and that the greatest , far outstrips all others in the amount of treasure and labour lavished upon it .
But of all the royal castleworks of the late twelfth and early thirteenth cen- turies in England , one , and that the greatest , far outstrips all others in the amount of treasure and labour lavished upon 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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| 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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