T. E. Lawrence’s Undergraduate Dissertation – Page 8

Scheme. i. References ii. Maps iii. Apology for the work, and objection to "secondary" criticism. 1-5. A preliminary; to set forth (one's view), and to suggest the lines on which I will work. 5-17. Military Architecture in Europe before the First Crusade. i. Romans in the Late empire ii. Goths, and others. iii. Earthworks of all sorts. iv. Norman keeps This is to show what equipment 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 encountered in the East : the characteristic style of Constantinople and all Asia Minor and Antioch : the central and southern portions of Syria had no elaborate defences of the Byzantine epoch. 25-55. The architecture of the Crusaders in Syria i. Their borrowing of Byzantine castles in Antioch and Edessa shape is noted. ii. Their keeps ; the first building, the fort of in Syria, and if figured Norman open. iii. The whole formed the close of towns and Castle styles gradually resulted in the formation of iv. The rival styles of the Templars — Greek of the Hospitalliers — French 56-66. Military Architecture in Europe in the twelfth century. i. Various developments and modifications of the Syrian Keep. ii. The gradual substitution of the "keepless" castle : — the art often but unnecessarily called "concentric".