The English CastleC. Scribner's sons, 1936 - 120 pages |
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... England than on the Continent for over three centuries . The greater feudal lords , whether on their own account or as officers under the King , held the great stone castles which in their new whiteness marked the English landscape from ...
... England than on the Continent for over three centuries . The greater feudal lords , whether on their own account or as officers under the King , held the great stone castles which in their new whiteness marked the English landscape from ...
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... England was more and more mercantile and less and less feudal . Castle building ceased , partly under the effect of that social change but also , towards the end , under the effect of artillery which gradually compelled the defensive to ...
... England was more and more mercantile and less and less feudal . Castle building ceased , partly under the effect of that social change but also , towards the end , under the effect of artillery which gradually compelled the defensive to ...
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... England the sport of archery was being encour- aged and the accuracy of the archers and their formidable weapons was such that none of the garrison of a castle would care to show himself at a crenel unless the besiegers could be kept ...
... England the sport of archery was being encour- aged and the accuracy of the archers and their formidable weapons was such that none of the garrison of a castle would care to show himself at a crenel unless the besiegers could be kept ...
Contents
CASTLES OF EARTH | 3 |
GREAT STONE TOWERS | 23 |
LOFTY WALLS | 56 |
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