English Medieval CastlesBatsford, 1954 - 208 pages |
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Page 100
... later fourteenth century onwards , the fortified manor - house ceased to be , as it were , the pis aller for those ... later fourteenth and fifteenth centuries were entirely new buildings . The perfection of * Not the present hall which ...
... later fourteenth century onwards , the fortified manor - house ceased to be , as it were , the pis aller for those ... later fourteenth and fifteenth centuries were entirely new buildings . The perfection of * Not the present hall which ...
Page 132
... later passed to the Pastons , and its ruins still stand , marked by their very fine , slender and cylindrical tower . The accounts which have survived , now in the British Museum and recently printed , cover the three years 1432-5 and ...
... later passed to the Pastons , and its ruins still stand , marked by their very fine , slender and cylindrical tower . The accounts which have survived , now in the British Museum and recently printed , cover the three years 1432-5 and ...
Page 201
... later , at an end , as the un- fortified Tudor country houses on the one hand , and Henry VIII's purely military coastal forts on the other , abundantly testify . Some half - century later a " Certificate of His Majesties decayed ...
... later , at an end , as the un- fortified Tudor country houses on the one hand , and Henry VIII's purely military coastal forts on the other , abundantly testify . Some half - century later a " Certificate of His Majesties decayed ...
Contents
Two Early Norman Castles | 23 |
THREE Early Stone Castles | 35 |
FOUR The Perfected Castle | 60 |
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