A castle is a sort of fortified structure designed throughout the centre Ages by preponderantly the nobility or royalty and by military orders. Students dialogue the scope of the word castle, however typically think about it to be the non-public fortified residence of a lord or noble. This is often distinct from a palace, that isn't fortified; from a defensive structure, that wasn't forever a residence for royalty or nobility; and from a fortified settlement, which was a public defence though their square measure several similarities among these forms of construction. Usage of the term has varied over time and has been applied to structures as numerous as hill forts and country homes.
These nobles designed castles to regulate the realm right away encompassing them and also the castles were each offensive and defensive structures; they provided a base from that raids may be launched moreover as offered protection from enemies. Though their military origins square measure typically stressed in castle studies, the structures conjointly served as centres of administration and symbols of power. Urban castles were accustomed management the native world and necessary travel routes, and rural castles were typically placed close to options that were integral to life within the community, like mills, fertile land, or water supply.
Many castles were originally designed from earth and timber, however, had their defences replaced later by stone. Early castles typically exploited natural defences, lacking options like towers and arrow slits and wishing on a central keep. Within the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries, a scientific approach to castle defence emerged. This junction rectifier to the proliferation of towers, with stress on flanking fireplace. several new castles were a two-dimensional figure or relied on concentric defence – many stages of defence at intervals one another that would all operate at the identical time to maximise the castle's military capability. Not all the weather of chateau design were military in nature, in order that devices like moats evolved from their original purpose of defence into symbols of power. Some grand castles had long winding approaches supposed to impress and dominate their landscape.

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