English Medieval CastlesBatsford, 1954 - 208 pages |
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Page 73
... importance . The domestic no less than the military importance of the keep also declines , for the lord of the castle was now able to move down from its lofty but somewhat inconvenient eminence and dwell more comfortably in spacious ...
... importance . The domestic no less than the military importance of the keep also declines , for the lord of the castle was now able to move down from its lofty but somewhat inconvenient eminence and dwell more comfortably in spacious ...
Page 110
... military strongpoint , and no contrast could be greater than that which it ... importance of the castle and its resultant transformation into a palatial ... military importance of the castle during the period which we have ...
... military strongpoint , and no contrast could be greater than that which it ... importance of the castle and its resultant transformation into a palatial ... military importance of the castle during the period which we have ...
Page 141
... military importance began to decline , that decline was gradual and by no means universal . To read of wars in the chronicles of the eleventh , twelfth and thirteenth centuries is to read largely of an interminable series of sieges ...
... military importance began to decline , that decline was gradual and by no means universal . To read of wars in the chronicles of the eleventh , twelfth and thirteenth centuries is to read largely of an interminable series of sieges ...
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 Bodiam 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 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