Meaning of countercastle | Babel Free

Examples

“When the king in 1136 began his policy of surrounding Ascalon by a ring of countercastles and built the castle at Beth Gibelin and entrusted it to the Knights of St. John, the patriarch was present.”

“These simple countercastle structures were all the more remarkable in that they proliferated at the same time that timber castles were giving way to stone ones.”

“A countercastle could have been a base for what we might call a semisiege; not a full-scale containment to a castle or city but a neutralizing effort in which a moderate garrison could make foraging for food and resupplying difficult but not impossible.”

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