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We have seen that in the Conqueror's 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 ...
We have seen that in the Conqueror's 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 ...
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This , we have seen , was done with the towers at Dover and Framlingham and they have their successors at Pembroke or Llanstephan , though the other feature of the earlier towers , that they are left open to the bailey , is very rarely ...
This , we have seen , was done with the towers at Dover and Framlingham and they have their successors at Pembroke or Llanstephan , though the other feature of the earlier towers , that they are left open to the bailey , is very rarely ...
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And this is nowhere better seen than in the multi- plication of gateways and gatehouses themselves , which becomes a marked feature of military architecture from the late thirteenth cen- tury onwards . Beaumaris ( 40 ) , Caerphilly ( 43 ) ...
And this is nowhere better seen than in the multi- plication of gateways and gatehouses themselves , which becomes a marked feature of military architecture from the late thirteenth cen- tury onwards . Beaumaris ( 40 ) , Caerphilly ( 43 ) ...
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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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