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Within the bailey were placed the other buildings necessary to the castle in its rôle as fortress , residence and , very often , the administrative centre of a district — a hall for meals , which was also the centre of social life and ...
Within the bailey were placed the other buildings necessary to the castle in its rôle as fortress , residence and , very often , the administrative centre of a district — a hall for meals , which was also the centre of social life and ...
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It was also , in the great majority of cases , the residence of the lord of the castle . The keep of the keep - and - bailey castle , therefore , had exactly the same rôle as the motte of the motte - and - bailey , and indeed it was ...
It was also , in the great majority of cases , the residence of the lord of the castle . The keep of the keep - and - bailey castle , therefore , had exactly the same rôle as the motte of the motte - and - bailey , and indeed it was ...
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the idea of one concentrated strongpoint within the castle never thereafter entirely disappeared , and that this should also have been the residence of the lord of the castle was natural enough . Though the elaborate fortification of ...
the idea of one concentrated strongpoint within the castle never thereafter entirely disappeared , and that this should also have been the residence of the lord of the castle was natural enough . Though the elaborate fortification of ...
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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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