These were built to withstand sieges and protect people. The introduction of feudalism led to wooden motte-and-bailey castles. Later, stone castles with high walls became common by the thirteenth ...

Feudalism had its faults as well as its merits; but it never conceived anything so contemptible of degrading to the character of a man as the flunkeyism that surrounded LOUIS XIV. and symbolized ...

Its basis was feudalism, a system whereby the Duke granted ... the Earl of Shrewsbury had built a castle at Montgomery and had taken much of the Welsh borderland into his possession, and the ...