... within a single locality and would require only one base. As Mediaeval government was frequently incapable of guaranteeing peace and order, such bases needed to be defensible. Thus the castle was born. 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. Most were the product of several centuries of modification and rebuilding, as new forms of defense were raised ... siegecr...

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... of Irish. But these efforts did nothing to halt the slide and in a fairly short time the country had drifted back to being a myriad of Gaelic kingdoms again. The king's writ soon shrank in authority throughout the country until eventually it consisted of a few hundred square miles around Dublin which now became known as "The Pale". The people outside this area were largely ungovernable by English law ... , hence the term "beyond the pale" which is still used to describe people who cannot be controlled. But ... not fully appreciated up until this point, was one which had to be taken very...

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