Once dreaded as cesspools of infection, hospitals began to be seen as temples of healing and citadels of science, affording them a new moral identity. |
To this end 10,000 troops were quartered on the land, in great citadels at Leith, Ayr, and Perth, and a score of smaller forts. |
These are bleeping, whirring, multistorey citadels filled with people doing things that scarcely make sense to an outsider. |
Their precious citadels also include an outer surrounding wall in addition to the three ceremonial courts. |
The citadels in the various cities were also built by the Genoese. |
The latter wants to think it is transforming society if only by tearing down the imagined citadels of privilege. |