English Medieval CastlesBatsford, 1954 - 208 pages |
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... stronghold or a base for active operations , some measure of protection for the surrounding lands and those who dwelt within them . While the castle was becoming a commonplace on the mainland of Western Europe by about the middle of the ...
... stronghold or a base for active operations , some measure of protection for the surrounding lands and those who dwelt within them . While the castle was becoming a commonplace on the mainland of Western Europe by about the middle of the ...
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... strong- hold . The defences of this stronghold were completed by timber stockades , and within these were raised those buildings , also of timber , necessary to make the castle habitable . A stockade of stout timber posts , bound ...
... strong- hold . The defences of this stronghold were completed by timber stockades , and within these were raised those buildings , also of timber , necessary to make the castle habitable . A stockade of stout timber posts , bound ...
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... stronghold which is the peculiar characteristic of the castle . War- fare , in the earlier Middle Ages at least , turned almost exclusively upon the castle , and though from the fourteenth century the castle's military importance began ...
... stronghold which is the peculiar characteristic of the castle . War- fare , in the earlier Middle Ages at least , turned almost exclusively upon the castle , and though from the fourteenth century the castle's military importance began ...
Contents
Two Early Norman Castles | 23 |
THREE Early Stone Castles | 35 |
FOUR The Perfected Castle | 60 |
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