A castle is a type of fortified structure built during the Middle Ages predominantly by the nobility or royalty and by military orders. The cited article says scholars usually consider a castle to be the private fortified residence of a lord or noble, which is distinct from a mansion, palace or villa whose main purpose was exclusively pleasance and which are not primarily fortresses though they may be fortified. It adds that use of the term has varied over time and has sometimes been applied to structures such as hill forts and to nineteenth and twentieth century homes built to resemble castles. Buildings recorded in the atlas as castles are grouped under this concept.
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Domain (category)The source describes defensive structural features; mapping them onto the atlas domain list is an editorial classification. Concept DomainMedieval fortified residences 1 Connections
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A castle is a type of fortified structure built during the Middle Ages predominantly by the nobility or royalty and by military orders.
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A castle is a type of fortified structure built during the Middle Ages predominantly by the nobility or royalty and by military orders.
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Over the Middle Ages, when genuine castles were built, they took on a great many forms with many different features, although some, such as curtain walls, arrowslits, and portcullises, were commonplace.
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