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Keep

A keep is a type of fortified tower built within castles during the Middle Ages by European nobility. Scholars have debated the scope of the word keep, but usually consider it to refer to large towers in castles that were fortified residences, used as a refuge of last resort should the rest of the castle fall to an adversary.

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related to Early stone keeps (10th–12th centuries) · 22
Keep → Anglo-Norman, Ascot, Château, During, England, English, France, French, In, Ireland, Langeais, Lydford, Norman, Normandy, Oilly Castle, Sicily, Some, South Italy, Starting, Stone
related to Later use and destruction of keeps (17th–21st centuries) · 21
Keep → Cardinal Richelieu, England, France, From, Hawarden, In England, Keeps, Kenilworth, Montaiguillon, Norman, Palladian, Parliament, Penrhyn, Raglan, Rowan, Second English Civil War, Slighting, Some, The, There
related to Late medieval keeps (14th–16th centuries) · 20
Keep → Bastille, Charles, Charles VI, Crécy, England, English, France, French, Hundred Years War, No, Nunney, Poitiers, Saint-Malo, Some, Spain, The, The Château, The Vincennes, This, Vincennes
related to Mid-medieval keeps (late 12th–14th centuries) · 17
Keep → Capetian, Château, Crusades, During, England, France, Houdan, Iberia, Islamic, Levant, More, Normandy, One, The, These, Through, Within
related to Timber keeps (9th–12th centuries) · 15
Keep → Anjou, Conqueror, England, Fulk III, Geoffrey II, In, Many, Normans, Smaller, Some, The, These, Vincy, Wales, William
related to Etymology and historiography · 11
Keep → By, Early, English, Guînes, Italian, Italy, Middle English, Renaissance, Since, The, Victorian
see also · 4
Keep → Japanese, Romanian, South Slavs, Tenshu
is a · 2
Keep → keep of the Kolossi Castle, type of fortified tower built within castles during the Middle Ages by European nobility

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keeps century england castles built castle design france stone new towers designs military began tower french part early across building

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Keepis atype of fortified tower built within castles during the Middle Ages by European nobility0.90text
Keepis akeep of the Kolossi Castle0.90text
the White Towerinstance ofImportant early English and Welsh keeps0.80text
Colchesterinstance ofImportant early English and Welsh keeps0.80text
and Chepstow were all built in a distinctive Romanesque styleinstance ofImportant early English and Welsh keeps0.80text
often reusing Roman materialsinstance ofImportant early English and Welsh keeps0.80text
sitesinstance ofImportant early English and Welsh keeps0.80text
and were almost certainly intended to impressinstance ofImportant early English and Welsh keeps0.80text
generate a political effect amongst local peopleinstance ofImportant early English and Welsh keeps0.80text
that at Château Gaillard were built with political effect in mindinstance ofEven formidable military designs0.80text
Framlingham never had a central keepinstance ofthus castles0.80text
Warkworthinstance ofat locations0.80text

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