The English CastleBatsford, 1942 - 120 pages |
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... lords took little part in the Crusades of the twelfth century which were the mainspring of castle building in Western Europe . Another reason was that save for a brief breakdown under Stephen , before castle building in stone had taken ...
... lords took little part in the Crusades of the twelfth century which were the mainspring of castle building in Western Europe . Another reason was that save for a brief breakdown under Stephen , before castle building in stone had taken ...
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... lord and his wife and family and a few servants of both sexes . The lord's horses were a very valuable item of his belongings and were always housed within the enclosure of the castle , where there would probably also be enough space to ...
... lord and his wife and family and a few servants of both sexes . The lord's horses were a very valuable item of his belongings and were always housed within the enclosure of the castle , where there would probably also be enough space to ...
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... lord . It will be appreciated that such castles might have had no permanently residential castellan . Their government was therefore entrusted to an officer called a " constable " who lived in the castle and , although not its owner ...
... lord . It will be appreciated that such castles might have had no permanently residential castellan . Their government was therefore entrusted to an officer called a " constable " who lived in the castle and , although not its owner ...
Contents
CASTLES OF EARTH | 5 |
GREAT STONE TOWERS | 23 |
LOFTY WALLS | 56 |
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arch architects architecture bailey barbican basement Bayeux Tapestry Beaumaris beautiful besiegers Bishop's Waltham built Caerphilly castellan castle halls CASTLE RISING castle-builders chapel Chilham circular clerestory constructed crenellated cross-wall defences ditch domestic buildings Dover early Norman earthwork Edward Edwardian elaborate enclosure engines England English castle entrance passage erected example feudal figs fireplace forebuilding fortress fourteenth century gallery garrison gate gatehouse hall and chamber hall-keep Henry HEREFORDSHIRE interior Kidwelly king later latrines lord main floor masonry MAXSTOKE mediaeval middle military moat MONMOUTHSHIRE motte motte-and-bailey motte-and-bailey castles Norman castle Orford outer palisades Portchester possibly protected ramparts remains Rochester roof round keep royal castles ruins Saxon scarps seems seen shell-keep Shropshire side siege stair staircase stone walls storey stronghold structures summit surrounded Sussex thirteenth century timber castle to-day tower Tower of London tower-keeps trebuchet twelfth century upper usually wall-towers WARWICKSHIRE Yorkshire