Lawrence’s Undergraduate Dissertation – Page 8

Scheme.

i. References
ii. Wish.
iii. Opening for the world, and objection to secondary criticism.

1-5. A Preamble: to set forth (broad view), and to
suggest the lines on which I will work.

5-17. Military Architecture in Egypt before the First Crusade

1. Pomona in the Delta
2. Fortis and others.
3. Wandering Bedawin raids.
4. Norman helps.

This is to show what argument in military architecture the
Crusaders took with them to the East.

18-24. Byzantine military architecture

This is to show what was the form in which they first
invented in the East: the characteristic style of Constantinople
and old asia Minor and Antioch: it’s careful and
southern portions of Syria show no elaborate defences of
the Byzantine epoch.

25-55. The architecture of the Crusades in Syria

1. The forrowing of Byzantine castle is a crude and rude
2. Their keeps – the first building, they put up in Syria,
   and of the Norman origin
3. Then, bred with the dunes of Loaves and
   Greek styles gradually resulted: the problem of we
4. The wind step [?] to Templars – Greek
   – the Hospitallers – French

56-66. Military Architecture in Europe in the twelfth century.

1. Various developments and modifications
   of the Syrian Keep.
2. The gradual substitution of the
   “donjons” castle:- the salient often
   but unnecessarily called “concentric”