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... but all of them have been concerned with its architectural history only , and generally speaking this is also true of ... and origin of the castle , the next four chapters of this book are devoted to medieval military architecture .
... but all of them have been concerned with its architectural history only , and generally speaking this is also true of ... and origin of the castle , the next four chapters of this book are devoted to medieval military architecture .
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The techniques of military architecture , if they did not remain entirely stationary , were applied more and more diffusely and eventually less and less frequently . Generally speaking , from the latter half of the fourteenth century ...
The techniques of military architecture , if they did not remain entirely stationary , were applied more and more diffusely and eventually less and less frequently . Generally speaking , from the latter half of the fourteenth century ...
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For in their building architects and those who commissioned them were increasingly released from the stern necessities of ... was already maintaining features of military architecture as formalities and ornaments divorced from reality .
For in their building architects and those who commissioned them were increasingly released from the stern necessities of ... was already maintaining features of military architecture as formalities and ornaments divorced from reality .
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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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