English Medieval CastlesBatsford, 1954 - 208 pages |
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Page 74
... fire from flanking towers and battlements and a multiplicity of well- placed firing - loops , while medieval fire - power reaches its culmina- tion at the south front of Carnarvon . There two firing - galleries are worked into the walls ...
... fire from flanking towers and battlements and a multiplicity of well- placed firing - loops , while medieval fire - power reaches its culmina- tion at the south front of Carnarvon . There two firing - galleries are worked into the walls ...
Page 142
... fire fed with bacon and grease " . Fire was especially the enemy of the timber castle , and we may notice that in the Bayeux Tapestry illus- tration of an eleventh - century attack on Dinan , two soldiers are attempting to set fire to ...
... fire fed with bacon and grease " . Fire was especially the enemy of the timber castle , and we may notice that in the Bayeux Tapestry illus- tration of an eleventh - century attack on Dinan , two soldiers are attempting to set fire to ...
Page 154
... fire was slower than that of the longbow , its range was greater and it needed less space and less exposure for its discharge — while cer- tainly neither weapon was ever seriously rivalled by the hand the medieval period . gun in In ...
... fire was slower than that of the longbow , its range was greater and it needed less space and less exposure for its discharge — while cer- tainly neither weapon was ever seriously rivalled by the hand the medieval period . gun in In ...
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