Castles: from mighty fortresses to fantastical palaces
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Castles Don't Just Stop Being Defensible
There is, i think, a shift, but it's so gradual. And of course, it doesn't always take into account these strange aberrations from this rule. There are nineteenth century buildings that were genuinely designed to be sort of slightly like fortifications. Iyou know, by the contrary measure, as early as the thirteenth century, people are clearly admiring castles as works of architecture. Now, castles are both for fun and for war, and these images of them are all interrelated. But throughout your book, you talk about lots of different themes about how casts have been seen through history. Could you maybe tell us about a few of these themes that you bring up
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