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Slighting

Slighting is the deliberate damage of high-status buildings to reduce their value as military, administrative, or social structures. This destruction of property is sometimes extended to the contents of buildings and the surrounding landscape. It is a phenomenon with complex motivations and was often used as a tool of control. Slighting spanned cultures…

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The effect of slighting

Papowo BiskupieChełmżaDeganwy CastleArrowslitsLouis IX of France
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Meaning and use

Kenilworth CastleEccleshall CastleStaffordshireThe AnarchyEdward II
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Methods of destruction

UnderminingBungay CastleSuffolkHenry II
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Overview

English Civil War
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Slighting

Nodes45
Edges44
Triples36
Avg. degree1.96
Density0.044444
Components1

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Slighting

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related to Meaning and use · 16
Slighting → As, Bruce, Castles, Destruction, Edward II, England, English Civil War, Harbottle Castle, In, Northumberland, Robert, Similarly, Staffordshire, The, The Anarchy, When Eccleshall Castle
related to The effect of slighting · 11
Slighting → After, Chełmża, Deganwy Castle, Dismantling, France, Heraldic, In, King Louis IX, Papowo Biskupie, Poland, The
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Slighting → act of deliberately damaging a high-status building, deliberate damage of high-status buildings to reduce their value as military

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castle destruction castles slighted war english buildings slight civil military often owner part social sometimes used control use also fortification

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Slightingis adeliberate damage of high-status buildings to reduce their value as military0.90text
Slightingis aact of deliberately damaging a high-status building0.90text
retrieving reusable materials.Undermining involved digging underneath a wall or removing stones at its baseinstance ofand secondary damage which was incidental through activity0.80text
arrowslitsinstance offor example damaging elements0.80text
free-standing hallsinstance ofdomestic areas0.80text
chapels were typically excluded from the destruction.When King Władysław II Jagiełło of Poland gave the order to slight the castle at Mała Nieszawkainstance ofdomestic areas0.80text
after negotiation with the Teutonic Order who owned the castleinstance ofdomestic areas0.80text
one of the conditions was that the buildings in the outer bailey would be left intact while the walls were reduced in heightinstance ofdomestic areas0.80text
Sheffield Castle where detailed records surviveinstance ofdestruction accounts are rare but there are some instances0.80text
Slightingrelated to Meaning and useThe0.60section
Slightingrelated to Meaning and useCastles0.60section
Slightingrelated to Meaning and useDestruction0.60section

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