The English CastleC. Scribner's sons, 1936 - 120 pages |
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... Middle Ages and their military transformation under the effect of artillery . The English castle is to - day one of three things : a ruin , a restoration , or a fragment on to which has been grafted a later dwellinghouse unsuited to war ...
... Middle Ages and their military transformation under the effect of artillery . The English castle is to - day one of three things : a ruin , a restoration , or a fragment on to which has been grafted a later dwellinghouse unsuited to war ...
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... Middle Ages in 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 ...
... Middle Ages in 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 ...
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... middle of the fourteenth century . The turreted gatehouse was the last survivor of the old military features in our mediaeval architecture , being retained throughout the Tudor period to give a sense of dignity to the entrances of great ...
... middle of the fourteenth century . The turreted gatehouse was the last survivor of the old military features in our mediaeval architecture , being retained throughout the Tudor period to give a sense of dignity to the entrances of great ...
Contents
CASTLES OF EARTH | 3 |
GREAT STONE TOWERS | 23 |
LOFTY WALLS | 56 |
Copyright | |
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