English Medieval CastlesSimmons-Boardman Publishing Corporation, 1961 - 208 pages |
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Page 122
... royal castleworks of the late twelfth and early thirteenth cen- turies in England , one , and that the greatest , far outstrips all others in the amount of treasure and labour lavished upon it . A castle had existed at Dover from at ...
... royal castleworks of the late twelfth and early thirteenth cen- turies in England , one , and that the greatest , far outstrips all others in the amount of treasure and labour lavished upon it . A castle had existed at Dover from at ...
Page 131
... royal works , whereas in all periods of the Middle Ages the baronage was no less active in castle - building than the Crown . Indeed , the realisation that in the medieval English state private castles com- monly outnumbered royal , and ...
... royal works , whereas in all periods of the Middle Ages the baronage was no less active in castle - building than the Crown . Indeed , the realisation that in the medieval English state private castles com- monly outnumbered royal , and ...
Page 182
... royal castles were receiving ever more elaborate residential quarters within the increasingly safe circuit of their walls . At Windsor , in the lower bailey , to the east of the existing hall now much improved , new royal lodgings and a ...
... royal castles were receiving ever more elaborate residential quarters within the increasingly safe circuit of their walls . At Windsor , in the lower bailey , to the east of the existing hall now much improved , new royal lodgings and a ...
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