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Military Architecture in England During the Middle Ages (Hardcover)
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Military Architecture in England During the Middle Ages (Hardcover)
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In the present volume an attempt is made to trace the growth of the
general principles of medieval fortification, with special
reference to castles, in which, within their limited area, the most
complete illustration of those principles is given. In order to
give greater clearness to the account of their evolution, a
prefatory chapter deals generally with earlier types of
fortification in Britain, and the critical period of Saxon and
Danish warfare is treated in the second chapter with some detail.
This leads us to the early Norman castle of earthwork and timber;
and the stone fortifications to which this gave place are
introduced by a brief account of the progress of siegecraft and
siege-engines. The Norman castle and its keep or great tower are
then described. The developments of the later part of the twelfth
century and the arrangements of the thirteenth-centuryviii castle,
with those of the dwelling-house within its enceinte, follow and
prepare the way for the castles of the reign of Edward I. which
represent the highest effort of military planning. In the last two
chapters is related the progress of the transition from the castle
to the fortified manor-house, which followed the introduction of
fire-arms into warfare and preceded the Renaissance period. It will
be seen that the castle is taken as the unit of military
architecture throughout; but illustrations are constantly drawn
from walled towns, which are, in fact, the castles of communities,
and in the eleventh chapter extended allusion is made to the chief
features of their plan and defences.
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