English Medieval CastlesBatsford, 1954 - 208 pages |
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Page 36
... stone could provide . Further , the transition from the castle of earthwork and timber to the castle of stone , in England as on the Continent , was the effect as well as the cause of the adoption during the twelfth century of im ...
... stone could provide . Further , the transition from the castle of earthwork and timber to the castle of stone , in England as on the Continent , was the effect as well as the cause of the adoption during the twelfth century of im ...
Page 37
... stone castles were raised upon the sites of existing strong- holds , stone walls and buildings gradually replacing the timber stockades and buildings of the original . It was , therefore , the medium rather than the underlying theory of ...
... stone castles were raised upon the sites of existing strong- holds , stone walls and buildings gradually replacing the timber stockades and buildings of the original . It was , therefore , the medium rather than the underlying theory of ...
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Reginald Allen Brown. contains the hall , chapel and other stone buildings , “ the houses in the castle " , ranged along one or more of its sides . But the most im- portant part of the early stone castle from the military , and usually ...
Reginald Allen Brown. contains the hall , chapel and other stone buildings , “ the houses in the castle " , ranged along one or more of its sides . But the most im- portant part of the early stone castle from the military , and usually ...
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