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• Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
• File Size : 37,6 Mb
• Release Date : 16 June 2024

A collection of the most significant articles in castle studies, with contributions from scholars in history, archaeology, historic buildings and landscape archaeology.

• Publisher : Routledge
• File Size : 24,6 Mb
• Release Date : 15 April 2013

In this engaging book Matthew Johnson looks 'behind the castle gate' to discover the truth about castles in England at the end of the Middle Ages. Traditional studies have seen

• Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
• File Size : 48,6 Mb
• Release Date : 18 May 2017

Designed to dominate the surrounding area, to house powerful garrisons, offer sumptuous quarters for local nobility, and to discourage and repel enemy attacks, castles dominated England and Wales for more

• Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
• File Size : 55,9 Mb
• Release Date : 16 June 2024

Medieval castles have traditionally been explained as feats of military engineering and tools of feudal control, but Abigail Wheatley takes a different approach, looking at a range of sources usually

• Publisher : Yale University Press
• File Size : 38,6 Mb
• Release Date : 01 January 1999

In the later medieval centuries, a whole range of important social, political and artistic activities took place against the backdrop of the great English households. In this vividly illuminating book,

• Publisher : University of Chicago Press
• File Size : 23,5 Mb
• Release Date : 15 November 2008

Castles, Battles, and Bombs reconsiders key episodes of military history from the point of view of economics—with dramatically insightful results. For example, when looked at as a question of

• Publisher : Irish Books & Media
• File Size : 33,8 Mb
• Release Date : 16 June 1999

This book traces the development of the Irish medieval castle from 1169 onwards, drawing on the research and records of the Archaeological Survey.

• Publisher : Boydell Press
• File Size : 47,7 Mb
• Release Date : 16 June 2024

First multi-disciplinary study of the cultural and social milieu of the post-medieval castle. The castle was an imposing architectural landmark in late medieval and early modern England and Wales. Castles

• Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
• File Size : 48,8 Mb
• Release Date : 20 October 2015

Medieval castles were, alongside the great cathedrals, the most recognisable buildings of the medieval world. Closely associated with concepts of justice, lordship and authority as well as military might, castles

• Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
• File Size : 31,6 Mb
• Release Date : 16 June 2024

The vast majority of castles in England, Wales, Ireland, and France have virtually no military history' of sieges or physical conflict across the whole panorama of more than five centuries'.