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Subject(s)

• Castles [Browse]
• Castles—Study and teaching [Browse]
• Architecture, Medieval [Browse]

Editor

• Liddiard, Robert [Browse]

Summary note

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

Reproduction note

Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.

Source of description

Description based on print version record.

Contents

• Frontcover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Editor's Preface; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Fourteenth-Century Castles in Context: Apotheosis or Decline?; 2 Architects, Advisors and Design at Edward I's Castles in Wales; 3 The Courtyard and the Tower: Contexts and Symbols in the Development of Late Medieval Great Houses; 4 Castle Planning in the Fourteenth Century; 5 Meaningful Constructions: Spatial and Functional Analysis of Medieval Buildings; 6 Mota, Aula et Turris: the Manor-Houses of the Anglo-Scottish Border; 7 Lulworth Castle, Dorset.
• 8 A Scottish Problem with Castles9 Structural Symbolism in Medieval Castle Architecture; 10 Specimens of Freedom to Crenellate by Licence; 11 Some Analysis of the Castle of Bodiam, East Sussex; 12 English Castles in the Reign of Edward II; 13 Castles of Ward and the Changing Pattern of Border Conflict in Ireland; 14 The Donjon of Knaresborough: the Castle as Theatre; 15 The Architecture of Arthurian Enthusiasm: Castle Symbolism in the Reigns of Edward I and his Successors; 16 Medieval Ornamental Landscapes; 17 Otherworld Castles in Middle English Arthurian Romance; Guide to Further Reading.

ISBN

• 9781782048930 ((electronic bk.))
• 1782048936 ((electronic bk.))

OCLC

961910270

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