{"id":40003,"date":"2017-09-03T04:00:13","date_gmt":"2017-09-03T08:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=40003"},"modified":"2017-09-01T08:57:29","modified_gmt":"2017-09-01T12:57:29","slug":"medieval-castles-elements-of-fortifications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/09\/03\/medieval-castles-elements-of-fortifications\/","title":{"rendered":"Medieval Castles &#8211; Elements of Fortifications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IghzU9Dr6VU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Published on 17 Jan 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This episode covers the various elements of castle fortification elements like towers, walls, moats, loopholes, gates, gatehouses, portcullises, battlements, hoardings, draw bridges, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Military History Visualized provides a series of short narrative and visual presentations like documentaries based on academic literature or sometimes primary sources. Videos are intended as introduction to military history, but also contain a lot of details for history buffs. Since the aim is to keep the episodes short and comprehensive some details are often cut.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bb SOURCES &#038; LINKS \u00ab <\/p>\n<p>Kaufmann, J.E; Kaufmann, H.W.: <em>The Medieval Fortress \u2013 Castles, Forts, and Walled Cities of the Middle Ages<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>Piper, Otto: <em>Burgenkunde. Bauwesen und Geschichte der Burgen<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>Toy, Sidney: <em>Castles \u2013 Their Construction and History<\/em> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pitt.edu\/~medart\/menuglossary\/crenelation.htm\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.pitt.edu\/~medart\/menuglossary\/crenelation.htm<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published on 17 Jan 2017 This episode covers the various elements of castle fortification elements like towers, walls, moats, loopholes, gates, gatehouses, portcullises, battlements, hoardings, draw bridges, etc. Military History Visualized provides a series of short narrative and visual presentations like documentaries based on academic literature or sometimes primary sources. Videos are intended as introduction [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,7,5],"tags":[140,590,1095,703],"class_list":["post-40003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-history","category-military","tag-design","tag-engineering","tag-fortification","tag-middleages"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-apd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40003"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40004,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40003\/revisions\/40004"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}