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 * English castellology sources (English language)
 * Thompson, M.W. (1991). The Rise of the Castle. Cambridge, NY, Sydney: CUP. Owned.
 * Friar, Stephen (2003). The Sutton Companion to Castles, Sutton Publishing, Stroud, 2003. ISBN 978-0-7509-3994-2. Owned.


 * European castellology sources (English language)
 * Comité International d'Histoire de l'Art (1996) Burgen und Feste Plätze/Chateaux-forts et places fortes/Castles and Fortified Places, Munich: De Gruyter.
 * Huber, Rudolf and Renate Rieth (2004). Index Universalis Multilingualis. Munich: Saur.
 * Kaufmann, J.E. and Kaufmann, H.W. (2001). The Medieval Fortress. Castles, Forts and Walled Cities of the Middle Ages, Da Capo, Cambridge, MA. ISBN 978-0-306-81358-0. Owned.
 * Stokstad, Marilyn (2005). Medieval Castles. London, Westport: Greenwood.
 * Toy, Sidney (1984). Castles: Their Construction and History. NY: Dover.
 * Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène-Emmanuel (1860). An Essay on the Military Architecture of the Middle Ages, tr. by M. Macdermott (architect). Oxford and London: J.H. and J. Parker.

Lepage (2023) Fortress: Generic term designating a fortified place. It is typically a term that admits several definitions, depending largely on the context or the personal inclinations of the person doing the defining. It can be a castle, stronghold, fortified city, place of security, fortified region or 'a military position, sited and equipped so as to provide a point of resistance in case of attack, and act as a rallying point for the troops who may be compelled to fall back from more exposed positions' (Harmsworth's Encyclopedia).

Castle: A castle - from the Latin castellum (q.v.) - is a defensive structure seen as one of the main symbols of the Middle Ages. The term has a history of scholarly debate surrounding its exact meaning, but it is generally regarded as being distinct from a fort, fortress, fortified place and palace. A medieval castle was many things at the same time: a fortified residence owned and built by a local feudal lord; a symbol and display of feudal authority and an expresion of the lord's power and prestige; a place of social and...an administrative and economic centre commanding a specific territory (fief) within a social organization"