English Medieval CastlesSimmons-Boardman Publishing Corporation, 1961 - 208 pages |
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Page 19
... rôle as a stronghold or a base for active operations , some measure of protection for the surrounding lands and those who dwelt within them . While the castle was becoming a commonplace on the mainland of Western Europe by about the ...
... rôle as a stronghold or a base for active operations , some measure of protection for the surrounding lands and those who dwelt within them . While the castle was becoming a commonplace on the mainland of Western Europe by about the ...
Page 38
... rôle both as residence and fortress . Most often they comprised at least a chapel , a hall , storehouses and stables , and were commonly ranged against the bailey wall , thus being sheltered while leaving the centre of the enclosure ...
... rôle both as residence and fortress . Most often they comprised at least a chapel , a hall , storehouses and stables , and were commonly ranged against the bailey wall , thus being sheltered while leaving the centre of the enclosure ...
Page 140
... rôle in medieval life , and wherein lay its importance , that so much treasure , skill and labour were concentrated upon it . T CHAPTER SEVEN The Castle in War HE military rôle 140.
... rôle in medieval life , and wherein lay its importance , that so much treasure , skill and labour were concentrated upon it . T CHAPTER SEVEN The Castle in War HE military rôle 140.
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