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The architecture of Provence and the Riviera (1888)

MacGibbon, David, d.1902 · Edinburgh, D. Douglas · leaf 280

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ly Crusaders learned much in the Eastwith regard to the science of attack and defence of strong-holds. In the eleventh and twelfth centuries, towers likethose of the Normans were erected, which depended fortheir security on the natural strength of the site, and thegreat height and thickness of the… … 250 MEDIEVAL PERIOD. A very interesting description, illustrative of themanner of carrying on and resisting siege operations, isquoted by Viollet-le-Duc from a report rendered byGuillaumc des Ormes, Seneschal of Carcassonne, toQueen Blanche, on the raising of the siege of that townby Trenceval in…

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