English Medieval CastlesBatsford, 1954 - 208 pages |
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Reginald Allen Brown. T CHAPTER SEVEN The Castle in War HE military rôle of the castle is the most obvious , the most romantic , and basically the most important . Though the medieval castle was always a residence no less than a fortress ...
Reginald Allen Brown. T CHAPTER SEVEN The Castle in War HE military rôle of the castle is the most obvious , the most romantic , and basically the most important . Though the medieval castle was always a residence no less than a fortress ...
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... castles . At the same time it must be emphasised that in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries at least , the provision by king and barons alike of very adequate residential quarters and amenities in and about the castle did not then ...
... castles . At the same time it must be emphasised that in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries at least , the provision by king and barons alike of very adequate residential quarters and amenities in and about the castle did not then ...
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... castle , in the very perfection it had achieved by the end of the thirteenth century , contributed something to its own military decline . “ A castle like Caerphilly " , wrote the late Professor Hamilton Thomp- son , " did not put an ...
... castle , in the very perfection it had achieved by the end of the thirteenth century , contributed something to its own military decline . “ A castle like Caerphilly " , wrote the late Professor Hamilton Thomp- son , " did not put an ...
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