The Castle Explorer's GuideKaye and Ward, 1979 - 249 pages |
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... military tenure and provided for a specified number of fully armed soldiers for 40 days in a year ( ' a knight's fee ... military obligation . These in turn might be ' sub - let ' so that a manor might be held of a small castle which in ...
... military tenure and provided for a specified number of fully armed soldiers for 40 days in a year ( ' a knight's fee ... military obligation . These in turn might be ' sub - let ' so that a manor might be held of a small castle which in ...
Page 118
... military might and could be won or lost as a result of military engagements . One might even say that the Middle Ages in England are begun and ended with a battle ( Hastings , 1066 , Bosworth , 1485 ) and in both one king died and ...
... military might and could be won or lost as a result of military engagements . One might even say that the Middle Ages in England are begun and ended with a battle ( Hastings , 1066 , Bosworth , 1485 ) and in both one king died and ...
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... MILITARY DEVELOPMENT Satire on Militarism The motte - and - bailey introduced by the Normans provided the plan for the subsequent stone castle whose first development was keep - and - bailey . The traditional function of the great tower ...
... MILITARY DEVELOPMENT Satire on Militarism The motte - and - bailey introduced by the Normans provided the plan for the subsequent stone castle whose first development was keep - and - bailey . The traditional function of the great tower ...
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Aberdeenshire Alnwick assault Bamburgh barbican barmkin baronial basement battlements Beaumaris besiegers built C12 E O Caernarvon Caerphilly chamber chapel Chepstow church Conisbrough constable Conway crenellated crossbow defence ditch domestic buildings Dover Durham earthworks Edward enclosure engines England entrance examples fireplace flanking floor forebuilding fortified manor-house fragments ft high garrison gate gatehouse ground hall Harlech Henry Henry III Herefordshire inner bailey Invernesshire keep Kenilworth Kidwelly kitchen knights L-plan later London Tower loops lord machicolated manor masonry mediaeval moat motte motte-and-bailey mound mural murder-holes Newcastle Norman North Riding Northumberland original outer bailey palisade parapet pele pele-tower Pontefract Portchester portcullis postern prison protected rectangular remains of curtain ring-work Rochester roof royal castles ruins Scottish shell-keep siege sometimes square stair stone storeys Substantial remains survives timber tower tower-house town walls turrets usually vaulted wall-towers wall-walk Warkworth Warwick wooden Yorkshire