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holy_cow What were the five types of castles in the Middle Ages???? PLEASE HELP!!!!
Erik Schmidt I didn't know there were five destinct types.
Good question. I'd love to know what they are if you find out.
Erik
Merlin I'd say there was a much larger variety of types of castles. Does this question refer to a specific book you read at school?
ipflo hi
I don't think have an answer to your question. But I like the question how many castletypes there are.
A book of mine distincts 3 main castletypes with in total 13 subcastletypes for the territory of the holy roman empire of Germany in the middle ages.
The three maintypes are:
1. 'Flachlandburgen' (castles of the lowlands) with four subtypes: 'Insel', 'Ebene', 'Wasserburg' and 'Hügel'.
2. 'Höhenburgen (mountain castles) with 6 subtypes: 'berg', 'sporn', 'kamm', 'ecke', 'rand' and 'hang'
3. 'Felsenburgen' (cave castles) with 3 subtypes: 'Felsturm', 'Höhle' and 'band'
(sorry I don't have the time to translate and explain the subcastletypenames)
The book is:
Burgen und Wohntürme des deutschen Mittelalters (2 volumes) by Friedrich Wilhelm Krahe. It is published by the Thorbecke Verlag from Stuttgart. ISBN 3-7995-0104-5
It is a great book for laymen in the castellogica. For others it isn't that great, because than it is too much: seen that, done that, been there. But it is nice to have as an reference book for moments like this
Gordon Every castle is different, though some styles are common.
There are a huge variety, each country having several styles, and similarly each era.
Scotland has the following,
Mottes, ringworks, peels, castles of enceinte or enclosure castles, simple keeps, tower houses of L plan, U plan, E plan, and numerous distindtly individual designs such as Crookston's X-plan variant, Craignethan, Hermitage, Borthwick, and Ravenscraig in Kirkaldy....and the Royal castles haven't been mentioned yet. Other styles from elsewhere include concentric castles, shell keeps and so on. You can see our confusion given your question.
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Visit; Gordon's Scottish Castles Resource Page

Merlin ipflo: I also have that book by F.W. Krahe. It contains lots of good drawings and plans, but in my opinion is too much focused on statistics (so many castles with a main tower, so many with two courts, etc) and in some cases refers to authors and books with a more than doubtful reputation.
It is only one of many possible approaches to classify castles after their architectural appearance. Others would be the status of teir owners, their strategical position, the state they're in today, etc.
ipflo I agree that book contains many statistics, but I think that is a one of the strong points of the book. Not many castle books use statistics, so I found it very clarifying such a different point of view than I normally know from castle books.
Merlin, you probably also have the other book of Krahe: Burgen des deutschen Mittelalters Grundriss-Lexikon from the Weidlich Verlag (ISBN 3-8035-1372-3)( http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/search-handle-form/302-1903083-5525624 ), so not you definitely should try to obtain it. In my opinion it is a really splendid book. Burgen und Wohntürme is a nice to have, but this book is (in my opinion) a must have for a castle lover. It contains plans of about 4.000 castles. It is a great book, although the lexicon misses some castles.
crazy cow the four castles i know of the middle ages are the
MOTTE and BAILEY
THE SQUARE KEEP
THE SHELL KEEP
THE CONCETRIC
hope this will help loadza luv crazy cow!!!XXXXXX
duncan Not to be a pain for you in your home work, but some of those you mention are not necessarily of the middle ages and came before or even after.
FYI, I'm not sure where you are getting this info but its not too accurate although it might answer your school projects questions.
If its in a work book can you tell us its name?

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holy_cow	What were the five types of castles in the Middle Ages???? PLEASE HELP!!!!
Erik Schmidt	I didn't know there were five destinct types. Good question. I'd love to know what they are if you find out. Erik
Merlin	I'd say there was a much larger variety of types of castles. Does this question refer to a specific book you read at school?
ipflo	hi I don't think have an answer to your question. But I like the question how many castletypes there are. A book of mine distincts 3 main castletypes with in total 13 subcastletypes for the territory of the holy roman empire of Germany in the middle ages. The three maintypes are: 1. 'Flachlandburgen' (castles of the lowlands) with four subtypes: 'Insel', 'Ebene', 'Wasserburg' and 'Hügel'. 2. 'Höhenburgen (mountain castles) with 6 subtypes: 'berg', 'sporn', 'kamm', 'ecke', 'rand' and 'hang' 3. 'Felsenburgen' (cave castles) with 3 subtypes: 'Felsturm', 'Höhle' and 'band' (sorry I don't have the time to translate and explain the subcastletypenames) The book is: Burgen und Wohntürme des deutschen Mittelalters (2 volumes) by Friedrich Wilhelm Krahe. It is published by the Thorbecke Verlag from Stuttgart. ISBN 3-7995-0104-5 It is a great book for laymen in the castellogica. For others it isn't that great, because than it is too much: seen that, done that, been there. But it is nice to have as an reference book for moments like this
Gordon	Every castle is different, though some styles are common. There are a huge variety, each country having several styles, and similarly each era. Scotland has the following, Mottes, ringworks, peels, castles of enceinte or enclosure castles, simple keeps, tower houses of L plan, U plan, E plan, and numerous distindtly individual designs such as Crookston's X-plan variant, Craignethan, Hermitage, Borthwick, and Ravenscraig in Kirkaldy....and the Royal castles haven't been mentioned yet. Other styles from elsewhere include concentric castles, shell keeps and so on. You can see our confusion given your question. ------------------ 'Demeure par la verite' Visit; Gordon's Scottish Castles Resource Page
Merlin	ipflo: I also have that book by F.W. Krahe. It contains lots of good drawings and plans, but in my opinion is too much focused on statistics (so many castles with a main tower, so many with two courts, etc) and in some cases refers to authors and books with a more than doubtful reputation. It is only one of many possible approaches to classify castles after their architectural appearance. Others would be the status of teir owners, their strategical position, the state they're in today, etc.
ipflo	I agree that book contains many statistics, but I think that is a one of the strong points of the book. Not many castle books use statistics, so I found it very clarifying such a different point of view than I normally know from castle books. Merlin, you probably also have the other book of Krahe: Burgen des deutschen Mittelalters Grundriss-Lexikon from the Weidlich Verlag (ISBN 3-8035-1372-3)( http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/search-handle-form/302-1903083-5525624 ), so not you definitely should try to obtain it. In my opinion it is a really splendid book. Burgen und Wohntürme is a nice to have, but this book is (in my opinion) a must have for a castle lover. It contains plans of about 4.000 castles. It is a great book, although the lexicon misses some castles.
crazy cow	the four castles i know of the middle ages are the MOTTE and BAILEY THE SQUARE KEEP THE SHELL KEEP THE CONCETRIC hope this will help loadza luv crazy cow!!!XXXXXX
duncan	Not to be a pain for you in your home work, but some of those you mention are not necessarily of the middle ages and came before or even after. FYI, I'm not sure where you are getting this info but its not too accurate although it might answer your school projects questions. If its in a work book can you tell us its name?