Set in a Silver Sea: The Island Peoples from Earliest Times to the Fifteenth Century, Volume 1Collins, 1984 - 470 pages |
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Page 397
... walls were designed more for preventing robberies and controlling suspicious travellers at night than for war . Except on the Welsh and Scottish borders they were seldom the elaborate affairs of the continent , where even the smallest ...
... walls were designed more for preventing robberies and controlling suspicious travellers at night than for war . Except on the Welsh and Scottish borders they were seldom the elaborate affairs of the continent , where even the smallest ...
Page 412
... walls and stained glass within , in radiant hues . The transformation was the result , partly of revolutionary advances in engineering technique – which rendered unnecessary the unbroken masses of wall space needed to support roof and ...
... walls and stained glass within , in radiant hues . The transformation was the result , partly of revolutionary advances in engineering technique – which rendered unnecessary the unbroken masses of wall space needed to support roof and ...
Page 421
... walls in a framework designed to flood the interior with light . And at its east end , in place of the Norman apse , they made the largest window in Europe , canting the walls of the last bay outwards to increase its size . This great wall ...
... walls in a framework designed to flood the interior with light . And at its east end , in place of the Norman apse , they made the largest window in Europe , canting the walls of the last bay outwards to increase its size . This great wall ...
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