The English Medieval castle, like its counterparts in Europe, is a unique phenomenon. ... Castles were the product of that period of Medieval history termed the Age of Feudalism. ... Although these articles deal with the development of the English Medieval castle by ascribing successive types and forms of castles to various periods in history, only a small number of castles assumed the form we see today in the course of one period of building. ... Indeed, we shall see that towards the close of the Medieval period, as society became more peaceful, castle design began to lay more stress on the c...

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Introduction The Victorian Age gives the impression it was an age for proper formal behavior, and that behavior is upheld by modern popular culture through movies and television. It was an age where men and women courted with chaperones. The language men and women used in writing letters to one an...

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The Year 1000: Life at the Turn of the First Millennium The Year 1000, a book by Robert Lacey and Danziger, explores how people lived in the year 1000, at the turn of the millennium. Life in the year 1000 was very different from life today. Lacey and Danziger used the Julius Work Cale...

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