The English CastleC. Scribner's sons, 1936 - 120 pages |
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Page 38
... twelfth century also have four floors , as Scar- borough and in the still later round keeps of Conisborough and Pembroke . On the other hand some keeps have definitely gone down in the social scale , having for some reason lost their ...
... twelfth century also have four floors , as Scar- borough and in the still later round keeps of Conisborough and Pembroke . On the other hand some keeps have definitely gone down in the social scale , having for some reason lost their ...
Page 59
... twelfth century his wages were eightpence a day . The limit of time he was expected to serve was forty days , and thus we sometimes find that where a tenant could not send his quota of knights he would pay the sum of two marks , or 26s ...
... twelfth century his wages were eightpence a day . The limit of time he was expected to serve was forty days , and thus we sometimes find that where a tenant could not send his quota of knights he would pay the sum of two marks , or 26s ...
Page 78
... twelfth century were still novices in masonry construction . It was not until the very end of the century that they discovered how to build slender shafts of stone such as grace the interiors of so many buildings of the " Gothic " era ...
... twelfth century were still novices in masonry construction . It was not until the very end of the century that they discovered how to build slender shafts of stone such as grace the interiors of so many buildings of the " Gothic " era ...
Contents
CASTLES OF EARTH | 3 |
GREAT STONE TOWERS | 23 |
LOFTY WALLS | 56 |
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