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  2. Cathedrals and Castles: Building in the Middle Ages - Wikipedia

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    The book is strictly architectural in focus, Alain Erlande-Brandenburg makes no attempt to portray medieval society but examines the churches and castles such a society required. A span of seven centuries, starting with the early builders of medieval towns (8th–9th century), through the impact of Gregorian Reform upon the realm of ...

  3. Medieval architecture - Wikipedia

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    Medieval architecture was the art and science of designing and constructing buildings in the Middle Ages. The major styles of the period included pre-Romanesque, Romanesque, and Gothic. In the fifteenth century, architects began to favour classical forms again, in the Renaissance style, marking the end of the medieval period. Many examples of ...

  4. Concentric castle - Wikipedia

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    Star-shaped plan of the citadel of Lille (France), designed by Vauban Plan of Beaumaris Castle (Wales). Surrounding fortresses or towns with a series of defensive walls where the outer walls are lower than the inner walls is something that has been found in fortifications going back thousands of years to cultures like the Assyrians, Persians, Ancient Egyptians and Babylonians.

  5. Great hall - Wikipedia

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    In the medieval period, the room would simply have been referred to as the "hall" unless the building also had a secondary hall. The term "great hall" has been mainly used for surviving rooms of this type for several centuries to distinguish them from the different type of hall found in post-medieval houses. Great halls were found especially in ...

  6. Tudor architecture - Wikipedia

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    Athelhampton House - built 1493–1550, early in the period Leeds Castle, reign of Henry VIII Hardwick Hall, Elizabethan prodigy house. The Tudor architectural style is the final development of medieval architecture in England and Wales, during the Tudor period (1485–1603) and even beyond, and also the tentative introduction of Renaissance architecture to Britain.

  7. Builders go back in time to construct castle the medieval way

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    Using only tools from the medieval times, several dozen workers are building a castle after finding a hidden fortress in France. Builders go back in time to construct castle the medieval way Skip ...

  8. Stadtschloss Hanau - Wikipedia

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    The plan for this was drafted by Wilhelm Hentze, head of the Elector's court gardens. The plan was subsequently revised at the request of William II by Louis Meinicke. After the demolition of the medieval water castle in 1829, the palace garden was again redesigned according to plans by Louis Meinicke.

  9. Castle - Wikipedia

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    Most Spanish castles were built from stone, whereas castles in Eastern Europe were usually of timber construction. [154] On the Construction of the Castle of Safed, written in the early 1260s, describes the construction of a new castle at Safed. It is "one of the fullest" medieval accounts of a castle's construction. [155]