Motte

(noun)

An earthen mound forming the site of a castle, camp, or fortification; often accompanied by an enclosed courtyard, or bailey, surrounded by a protective ditch and palisade.

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Examples of Motte in the following topics:

  • Norman Architecture

    • Over the next century, Norman barons built timber castles on earthen mounds, beginning the development of motte-and-bailey castles; they also produced great stone churches in the Romanesque style of the Franks.
    • In 1051 he brought in Norman knights who built "motte" castles as a defense against the Welsh.
    • Following the Norman invasion of England, Normans rapidly constructed more motte-and-bailey castles, and in a burst of building activity, they built churches, abbeys, and more elaborate fortifications such as Norman stone keeps.

  • Gender Inequality in Politics

    • Mott, along with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, organized the Seneca Falls Convention in 1948, effectively launching the women's civil rights movement in the United States.

  • Women's Rights

    • In 1840, Lucretia Mott and Margaret Fuller became active in Boston, the latter authoring the book The Great Lawsuit; Man vs.
    • The Seneca Falls Convention was hosted by Lucretia Mott, Mary Ann McClintock, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

  • Women and Democracy

    • Lucretia Mott, an educated woman from Boston, was one of the most powerful advocates of reform and acted as a bridge between the feminist and the abolitionist movements.

  • Women's Activism

    • Prominent leaders of the first-wave feminist movement in the United States include Lucretia Coffin Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucy Stone, Sojourner Truth, "Mother" Jones, and Susan B.
    • Not everyone welcomed her lectures, but she had many friends and staunch support among many influential people at the time, including Amy Post, Parker Pillsbury, Frances Gage, Wendell Phillips, William Lloyd Garrison, Laura Smith Haviland, Lucretia Mott, Ellen G.

  • Twenty-First-Century Americans

    • Chinatown, Manhattan, New York City 2009 on Pell Street, looking west towards Doyer and Mott.

  • Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and the Movement for Women's Suffrage

    • On July 19–20, 1848, in upstate New York, the Seneca Falls Convention on women's rights was hosted by Lucretia Mott, Mary Ann M'Clintock and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

  • Abolitionism and the Women's Rights Movement

    • The convention was organized primarily by a group of Quaker women during a visit by Lucretia Mott, a Quaker woman well known for her role in the abolition movement and advocacy for women's rights.

  • References

    • Newton, Isaac. (1687) The Principia, Prometheus Books: Amherst, New York,[Translated by Andrew Motte], 1995.