English Medieval CastlesSimmons-Boardman Publishing Corporation, 1961 - 208 pages |
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Page 90
... military importance , and its own direct effects upon castle architecture , which is here our concern , were in this country slight . The unique feature of the castle from the beginning had been that it was both a residence and a ...
... military importance , and its own direct effects upon castle architecture , which is here our concern , were in this country slight . The unique feature of the castle from the beginning had been that it was both a residence and a ...
Page 110
... military strongpoint , and no contrast could be greater than that which it ... importance of the castle and its resultant transformation into a palatial ... military importance of the castle during the period which we have ...
... military strongpoint , and no contrast could be greater than that which it ... importance of the castle and its resultant transformation into a palatial ... military importance of the castle during the period which we have ...
Page 194
... military importance from the fourteenth century onwards , and the immediate cause of this in turn is the changing character of warfare . In the military sphere we have already stressed that the introduction of gunpowder was only one ...
... military importance from the fourteenth century onwards , and the immediate cause of this in turn is the changing character of warfare . In the military sphere we have already stressed that the introduction of gunpowder was only one ...
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