Author: Charles Coulson
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 455
ISBN-13: 0199273634
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The vast majority of castles in England, Wales, Ireland, and France have virtually no military history' of sieges or physical conflict across the whole panorama of more than five centuries'. This is quite a sobering thought.
Author: Alexander Hamilton Thompson
Publisher:
Published: 1912
Total Pages: 424
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Christopher Gravett
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2013-01-20
Total Pages: 66
ISBN-13: 1849080836
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The simple castles raised after the Norman conquest had been developed throughout 11th and 12th centuries, whilst the introduction of Islamic and Byzantine fortification techniques from the late 12th century led to further developments in castle architecture. These fortifications were to be well tested throughout the course of the 13th century as England was riven by the conflict, characterized by prolonged sieges, between the monarchy and powerful magnates. As well as providing the focus for warfare, castles increasingly became the centres of their communities, providing a more permanent base for the lord, his family and retainers, as well as acting as centres for justice and administration.
Author: Alexander Hamilton Thompson
Publisher:
Published: 2020-04-11
Total Pages: 397
ISBN-13: 9781536171563
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Author: Stuart J. Prior
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Published: 2023-08-24
Total Pages: 197
ISBN-13: 1803275693
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Presents results of 15-year-long excavations and landscape research at Berkeley Castle. Combining archaeological results with information from the castle's 20,000 historical documents, the project adds greatly to our understanding of the changes that accompanied the arrival of the Normans, with the erection of a castle on the former minster site.
Author: A. Hamilton Thompson
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2023-08-21
Total Pages: 566
ISBN-13: 3368372343
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Reproduction of the original.