Criccieth Castle
Author: C. N. Johns
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Published: 1984
Total Pages: 44
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Author: C. N. Johns
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Published: 1984
Total Pages: 44
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Great Britain. Department of the Environment
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Published: 1975
Total Pages: 39
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Craig Owen Jones
Publisher: Univ of Hertfordshire Press
Published: 2022-03-01
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 1912260514
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhile the Edwardian castles of Conwy, Beaumaris, Harlech and Caernarfon are rightly hailed as outstanding examples of castle architecture, the castles of the native Welsh princes are far more enigmatic. Where some dominate their surroundings as completely as any castle of Edward I, others are concealed in the depths of forests, or tucked away in the corners of valleys, their relationship with the landscape of which they are a part far more difficult to discern than their English counterparts. This ground-breaking book seeks to analyse the castle-building activities of the native princes of Wales in the thirteenth century. Whereas early castles were built to delimit territory and as an expression of Llywelyn I ab Iorwerth's will to power following his violent assumption of the throne of Gwynedd in the 1190s, by the time of his grandson Llywelyn II ap Gruffudd's later reign in the 1260s and 1270s, the castles' prestige value had been superseded in importance by an understanding of the need to make the polity he created - the Principality of Wales - defensible. Employing a probing analysis of the topographical settings and defensive dispositions of almost a dozen native Welsh masonry castles, Craig Owen Jones interrogates the long-held theory that the native princes' approach to castle-building in medieval Wales was characterised by ignorance of basic architectural principles, disregard for the castle's relationship to the landscape, and whimsy, in order to arrive at a new understanding of the castles' significance in Welsh society. Previous interpretations argue that the native Welsh castles were created as part of a single defensive policy, but close inspection of the documentary and architectural evidence reveals that this policy varied considerably from prince to prince, and even within a prince's reign. Taking advantage of recent ground-breaking archaeological investigations at several important castle sites, Jones offers a timely corrective to perceptions of these castles as poorly sited and weakly defended: theories of construction and siting appropriate to Anglo-Norman castles are not applicable to the native Welsh example without some major revisions.Princely Ambition also advances a timeline that synthesises various strands of evidence to arrive at a chronology of native Welsh castle-building. This exciting new account fills a crucial gap in scholarship on Wales' built heritage prior to the Edwardian conquest and establishes a nuanced understanding of important military sites in the context of native Welsh politics.
Author: C. N. Johns
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Published: 1970
Total Pages: 40
ISBN-13: 9780116701664
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Alan Phillips
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Published: 2011-08-15
Total Pages: 175
ISBN-13: 1445624842
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWales, a small country, is littered with the relics of war Iron Age forts, Roman ruins, medieval castles and the coastal forts of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Author: Alan Phillips
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Published: 2014-11-15
Total Pages: 147
ISBN-13: 1445644061
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe fascinating story of the buildings that have helped to defend Wales throughout its history from the Iron Age to the twentieth century.
Author: Lise Hull
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2009-03-23
Total Pages: 229
ISBN-13: 0786452765
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMedieval castles were not just showcases for the royal and powerful, they were also the centerpieces of many people's daily lives. A travel guide as well as a historical text, this volume looks at castles not just as ruined buildings, but as part of the cultural and scenic landscape. The 88 photographs illustrate the different architectural concepts and castle features discussed in the text. The book includes glossaries of terminology, an appendix listing all the castles mentioned and their locations, notes, bibliography and index.
Author: Bryan Hugh St. John O'Neil
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Published: 1939
Total Pages: 16
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Cadw (Organization : Great Britain)
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Published: 2008
Total Pages: 1
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Danna R Messer
Publisher: Pen and Sword History
Published: 2020-09-30
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 1526729326
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe history of women in medieval Wales before the English conquest of 1282 is one largely shrouded in mystery. For the Age of Princes, an era defined by ever-increased threats of foreign hegemony, internal dynastic strife and constant warfare, the comings and goings of women are little noted in sources. This misfortune touches even the most well-known royal woman of the time, Joan of England (d. 1237), the wife of Llywelyn the Great of Gwynedd, illegitimate daughter of King John and half-sister to Henry III. With evidence of her hand in thwarting a full scale English invasion of Wales to a notorious scandal that ended with the public execution of her supposed lover by her husband and her own imprisonment, Joans is a known, but little-told or understood story defined by family turmoil, divided loyalties and political intrigue. From the time her hand was promised in marriage as the result of the first Welsh-English alliance in 1201 to the end of her life, Joans place in the political wranglings between England and the Welsh kingdom of Gwynedd was a fundamental one. As the first woman to be designated Lady of Wales, her role as one a political diplomat in early thirteenth-century Anglo-Welsh relations was instrumental. This first-ever account of Siwan, as she was known to the Welsh, interweaves the details of her life and relationships with a gendered re-assessment of Anglo-Welsh politics by highlighting her involvement in affairs, discussing events in which she may well have been involved but have gone unrecorded and her overall deployment of royal female agency.