English Medieval CastlesBatsford, 1954 - 208 pages |
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... Wales , for Scotland , by virtue of its medieval independence , re- mains a separate story . For the rest , the castle is placed firmly in the Middle Ages where it belongs , and for this there can be no apology . In the later chapters ...
... Wales , for Scotland , by virtue of its medieval independence , re- mains a separate story . For the rest , the castle is placed firmly in the Middle Ages where it belongs , and for this there can be no apology . In the later chapters ...
Page 127
... Wales and was designed to perpetuate it . The urgency of military necessity also , as at Château- Gaillard , lies behind the speed with which the work was in the main carried through . Here Beaumaris ( 1295-1323 ) and Carnarvon ( 1283 ...
... Wales and was designed to perpetuate it . The urgency of military necessity also , as at Château- Gaillard , lies behind the speed with which the work was in the main carried through . Here Beaumaris ( 1295-1323 ) and Carnarvon ( 1283 ...
Page 135
... Wales are exceptional in this sense , arising from the exceptional circumstances of the conquest of Wales and the military necessity of planting new castles in newly acquired territory . Of all the examples of works for the improvement ...
... Wales are exceptional in this sense , arising from the exceptional circumstances of the conquest of Wales and the military necessity of planting new castles in newly acquired territory . Of all the examples of works for the improvement ...
Contents
Two Early Norman Castles | 23 |
THREE Early Stone Castles | 35 |
FOUR The Perfected Castle | 60 |
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amongst attack barbican barons Bayeux Tapestry Beaumaris Bedford Bréauté building built Caerphilly Carnarvon Castle Hedingham Castle Rising castle-building castle's castles in Wales centre chamber chapel Château-Gaillard chronicler concentrated concentric castle Conquest contemporary Conway decline defence ditch Dover Durham Earl early earthwork Edward eleventh century England English castles English medieval entrance example feature flanking towers fortification fortress fourteenth century garrison gate gatehouse gateway Ground plan hall Harlech Henry II inner bailey keep-and-bailey castle Kenilworth Kidwelly King John king's Kirby Muxloe labour later Middle Ages lord machicolated mangonel medieval castle medieval military architecture Middle Ages military importance moat motte motte-and-bailey motte-and-bailey castle mound Norman Orford outer bailey pele towers perhaps period Pipe Rolls quadrangular raised ramparts records reign residence residential Rochester rôle royal castles shell keep side siege siege-craft stands stone castle storey strength stronghold Suffolk surviving thirteenth century timber Tower of London tower-house twelfth century warfare whole Windsor Yorkshire