The Idea of the Castle in Medieval England
The Idea of the Castle in Medieval England

Author: Abigail Wheatley

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 1903153611

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Medieval castles have traditionally been examined as feats of military engineering & tools of feudal control. This book presents a different perspective, by exploring the castle as a cultural reflection of the society that produced it, seen through art & literature.

Anglo-Saxon England: Volume 28
Anglo-Saxon England: Volume 28

Author: Michael Lapidge

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2000-06-22

Total Pages: 464

ISBN-13: 9780521652032

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This volume is framed by articles that throw interesting light on the achievement and reputation of the greatest of Anglo-Saxon kings - Alfred.

Anglo-Norman Castles
Anglo-Norman Castles

Author: Robert Liddiard

Publisher: Boydell Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 442

ISBN-13: 9780851159041

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Wide-ranging studies offer an in-depth analysis of castle-building 11th - 12th centuries and place castles within their broader social and political context. 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 symbolismand 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

Medieval Town Walls
Medieval Town Walls

Author: Oliver Hamilton Creighton

Publisher:

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13:

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"This book provides an up-to-date study of medieval town defences, mainly in England and Wales but with glances elsewhere, focusing on the period from the Norman Conquest to the English Civil Wars. Emphasis is placed on archaeology and topography but set within an historical framework. Due attention is paid to substantially surviving sites such as Canterbury, Conwy and York, but the extent to which defence extended to much smaller towns is also highlighted. Medieval Town Walls seeks to further understanding of the chronologies, functions and social significance of British town walls and offer an agenda for further academic study. A gazetteer guides the reader through the surviving remains, providing an aid to discovering Britain's urban walled heritage at first hand."--BOOK JACKET.

Defending Essex
Defending Essex

Author: Mike Osborne

Publisher: The History Press

Published: 2013-02-01

Total Pages: 359

ISBN-13: 0752492373

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For 2,000 years Essex, the county with the longest coast-line in England and dominating the eastern approaches to London, has been in the front-line against foreign invasion, from the Romans to the Spanish Armada to the two World Wars. It has also been involved in civil disorder, from the Anarchy and the Peasants’ Revolt to the English Civil War. Many reminders of these scenes of conflict may be seen in the landscape - Iron Age forts, a Roman walled town, medieval castles, strong-houses and homestead moats, coastal fortifications from Napoleonic times and earlier, and Victorian barracks and the drill halls of the Volunteers. From the twentieth century there are still more sites: military airfields from the First World War and Battle of Britain fighter airfields, radar sites and later bomber bases from the Second. Anti-invasion defenses line the coast, linear defenses criss-cross the landscape, and AA sites are everywhere to be found. Taking the story all the way up to the nuclear threat of the Cold War, this guide will interest residents and visitors alike.

The Age of Transition
The Age of Transition

Author: David R. M. Gaimster

Publisher: Oxbow Books Limited

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13:

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The Age of Transition forms a bridge between the Societies of Medieval Archaeoloy and Post-Medieval Archaeology and this volume originates in a conference that the two societies hosted at the British Museum in November 1996. The contents include: The great divide (Hugh Tait); Thoughts on periodisation and change (Paul Courtney); Archaeology of transition: a continental view (Frans Verhaeghe); The evaluation of historical archaeology (Helmut Hundsbichler); Rural settlements (Christopher Dyer); Innovation and resistance in tomb sculpture (Phillip Lindley); Whitehall Palace and Westminster 1400-1600 (Simon Thurley); New techniques and materials for architectural ornament (Maurice Howard); Gentry houses (Nicholas Cooper); Urban housing in England 1400-1600 (John Schofield); Vernacular architecture, ordinary people and everyday culture (Matthew Johnson); The changin technology of warfare (Jonathan Coad); English households in transition 1450-1550: the ceramic evidence (David Gaimster and Beverley Nenk); Food and diet in late medieval and early modern London: the archaeobotanical evidence (John Giorgi); Changing fashions in dress accessories 1400-1600 (Geoff Egan and Hazel Forsyth); Seals and heraldry 1400-1600 (John Cherry).