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194-201 , below ) ; here it is enough to say that it results principally from the changing political condition of the king- dom on the one hand and the changing character of warfare on the other . Not even the upheaval of the Wars of ...
194-201 , below ) ; here it is enough to say that it results principally from the changing political condition of the king- dom on the one hand and the changing character of warfare on the other . Not even the upheaval of the Wars of ...
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... the northern counties ( and on the other side of the border in southern Scotland ) by lesser gentry who had not hitherto felt the need to live in castles , to meet the new condi- tions of increased border warfare and insecurity .
... the northern counties ( and on the other side of the border in southern Scotland ) by lesser gentry who had not hitherto felt the need to live in castles , to meet the new condi- tions of increased border warfare and insecurity .
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... brought to the medieval scene something of the scientific horrors of modern warfare , while a fourteenth - century illustration of a tre- buchet loaded with a dead horse may suggest perhaps a medieval approach to germ warfare .
... brought to the medieval scene something of the scientific horrors of modern warfare , while a fourteenth - century illustration of a tre- buchet loaded with a dead horse may suggest perhaps a medieval approach to germ warfare .
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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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