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Anglo-Norman Castles | 
| Creator: Robert Liddiard
Publisher: Boydell Press
Category: Book
Buy New: $75.00
Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 2700622
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 432
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.2
Dimensions (in): 9.7 x 6.4 x 1.3
ISBN: 0851159044
Dewey Decimal Number: 728.810941
EAN: 9780851159041
ASIN: 0851159044
Publication Date: November 21, 2002
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Product Description
The castles of the eleventh and twelfth centuries remain among the most visible symbols of the Anglo-Norman world. This collection brings together for the first time some of the most significant articles in castle studies, with contributions from experts in history, archaeology and historic buildings. Castles remain a controversial topic of academic debate and here equal weight is given to seminal articles that have defined the study of the subject while at the same time emphasising newer approaches to the fortresses of the Anglo-Norman aristocracy. The studies in this volume range from discussions of the residential and military role of the castle to architectural symbolism and royal attitudes to baronial fortification. The result is a survey that offers an in-depth analysis of castle-building during the eleventh and twelfth centuries but which also places Anglo-Norman castles within their broader social, architectural and political context. Contributors ANN WILLIAMS, RICHARD EALES, DEREK RENN, LAWRENCE BUTLER, ROBERT HIGHAM, MARJORIE CHIBNALL, R.ALLEN BROWN, CHARLES COULSON, SIDNEY PAINTER, FREDERICK C. SUPPE, GRANT G. SIMPSON, BRUCE WEBSTER, J.R. KENYON, THOMAS McNEILL, T.A. HESLOP, PHILIP DIXON, PAMELA MARSHALL, JOHN BLAIR, CHARLES COULSON, ROBERT LIDDIARD
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| Customer Reviews:
A great way to spend a weekend August 27, 2005
Michael K. Smith (Gonzales, Louisiana)
This is a collection of nineteen articles by well-regarded specialists in medieval English history, including such notables as Marjorie Chibnall (writing on Orderic Vitalis) and Sidney Painter (with a reprint of his 1935 article on castle garrisons). Some of the papers consider particular castles, like Hedingham and Orford, or fortifications in particular areas, like Scotland or the Welsh marches. But castles didn't exist in a cultural or political vacuum, so there's also quite a lot here on the Bayeux Tapestry, Alan of Brittany and the honour of Richmond, the Anarchy and the building programs of Matilda and Stephen, and the effects of castle architecture on later, nonmilitary construction projects. Any medievalist will therefore find a great deal of interest, and there's also a useful bibliography (which is actually pretty long to be, as it warns, "selected").
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