Romanticised as ruins, treated as relics of forgotten military campaigns or as mere lessons in architectural history, the castles of England and Wales have too rarely been examined as places in which real people lived. Fresh both in style and approach and richly illustrated, Michael Thompson's book aims now to redress the balance. Examining the rise of the castle from its European origins in the tenth century to c.1400, the author devotes particular attention to the domestic accommodation - colourfully adorned but often cold and claustrophobic - that castles offered their aristocratic inhabitants. The book closes with the castle at its zenith, reviewing the extravagant outburst of self-conscious construction that took place in the fourteenth century as display and appearance came for the first time to play as important a part as function in determining building design.
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Fresh both in style and approach and richly illustrated, Michael Thompson's book examines the rise of the castle from its European origins in the tenth century to c.1400. The author devotes particular attention to the domestic accommodation - colourfully adorned but often cold and claustrophobic - that castles offered their aristocratic inhabitants
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The eating habits among well-born Romans, a private activity among a few persons in the triclinium, each extended on a couch, had no special influence on the architecture. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
salle basse, mural towers, pilaster buttresses, aisle posts, earthen motte, aisled hall, gate passage, external steps, timber uprights, inner ward, castle construction, polygonal towers, timber hall, secular canons, ancillary buildings, open arcade, outer curtain, town defences, flanking towers, corner turrets, external staircase, domestic buildings, rectangular towers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Castle Acre, Tower of London, White Tower, Richards Castle, Castle Rising, Hen Domen, Old English, Palais Royal, Philippe Auguste, Pipe Rolls, Castel del Monte, John of Gaunt, Sheriff Hutton, East Anglia, Old Wardour, Huttons Ambo, Old Sarum, William of Poitiers, William the Conqueror, Castle Hedingham, King's Works, North Sea, Roman Britain, South Mimms, Westminster Hall New!
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The eating habits among well-born Romans, a private activity among a few persons in the triclinium, each extended on a couch, had no special influence on the architecture. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
salle basse, mural towers, pilaster buttresses, aisle posts, earthen motte, aisled hall, gate passage, external steps, timber uprights, inner ward, castle construction, polygonal towers, timber hall, secular canons, ancillary buildings, open arcade, outer curtain, town defences, flanking towers, corner turrets, external staircase, domestic buildings, rectangular towers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Castle Acre, Tower of London, White Tower, Richards Castle, Castle Rising, Hen Domen, Old English, Palais Royal, Philippe Auguste, Pipe Rolls, Castel del Monte, John of Gaunt, Sheriff Hutton, East Anglia, Old Wardour, Huttons Ambo, Old Sarum, William of Poitiers, William the Conqueror, Castle Hedingham, King's Works, North Sea, Roman Britain, South Mimms, Westminster Hall New!
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- The Decline of the Castle by M. W. Thompson on 5 pages
- Castles in Wales and the Marches: Essays in Honour of D.J. Cathcart King by John R. Avent in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Bayeux Tapestry by David M. Wilson in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Chronicles of the Crusades (Penguin Classics) by Jean de Joinville in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Crusader Castles by T. E. Lawrence in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- The Invention of Comfort: Sensibilities and Design in Early Modern Britain and Early America by Professor John E. Crowley on 4 pages
- Images of Community in Old English Poetry (Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England) by Hugh Magennis on 4 pages
- Victory in the East: A Military History of the First Crusade by John France on page 39, and Back Matter
- Birth of the Leviathan: Building States and Regimes in Medieval and Early Modern Europe by Thomas Ertman on page 233, and Back Matter
- The Invention of Comfort: Sensibilities and Design in Early Modern Britain and Early America by John E. Crowley in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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