English Medieval CastlesSimmons-Boardman Publishing Corporation, 1961 - 208 pages |
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Page 32
... reign castles were raised in large numbers by both the king and his magnates . The pro- cess was continued under his immediate successors , and was accele- rated in the troubled reign of Stephen ( 1135-54 ) when , in the words of the ...
... reign castles were raised in large numbers by both the king and his magnates . The pro- cess was continued under his immediate successors , and was accele- rated in the troubled reign of Stephen ( 1135-54 ) when , in the words of the ...
Page 110
... reign of Mary Tudor . Perhaps , however , for the reductio ad absurdum of the expansion of the residential buildings within the castle , we must turn to Berry Pomeroy in Devon . For there , incongruously placed within , and indifferent ...
... reign of Mary Tudor . Perhaps , however , for the reductio ad absurdum of the expansion of the residential buildings within the castle , we must turn to Berry Pomeroy in Devon . For there , incongruously placed within , and indifferent ...
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... reign in the early twelfth century : they filled the land full of castles . They grievously oppressed 66 ... the wretched men of the land with castle - works . " The same lament seems heard in the Anglo - Saxon Chronicle's summary of ...
... reign in the early twelfth century : they filled the land full of castles . They grievously oppressed 66 ... the wretched men of the land with castle - works . " The same lament seems heard in the Anglo - Saxon Chronicle's summary of ...
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