Castles Their History And Evolution In Medieval Britain
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Castles Their History and Evolution in Medieval Britain
Author | : Marc Morris |
Publsiher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2017-04-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781681773957 |
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From the author of The Norman Conquest and A Great and Terrible King comes a sweeping and stunning history of the most magnificent castles in Britain. Beginning with their introduction in the eleventh century, and ending with their widespread abandonment in the seventeenth, Marc Morris explores many of the country’s most famous castles, as well as some spectacular lesser-known examples. At times this is an epic tale, driven by characters like William the Conqueror, King John and Edward I, full of sieges and conquest on an awesome scale. But it is also by turns an intimate story of less eminent individuals, whose adventures, struggles and ambitions were reflected in the fortified residences they constructed. Be it ever so grand or ever so humble, a castle was first and foremost a home. To understand castles—who built them, who lived in them, and why—is to understand the forces that shaped medieval Britain.
Castle
Author | : Marc Morris |
Publsiher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Castles |
ISBN | : 9780099558491 |
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'Castle' is a wide-ranging and original history of some of the most magnificent buildings in Britain. It explores many of the country's most famous and best-loved castles, as well as some little-known national treasures.
A Great and Terrible King
Author | : Marc Morris |
Publsiher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 500 |
Release | : 2010-12-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781446410288 |
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This is the first major biography for a generation of a truly formidable king. Edward I is familiar to millions as 'Longshanks', conqueror of Scotland and nemesis of Sir William Wallace ('Braveheart'). Edward was born to rule England, but believed that it was his right to rule all of Britain. His reign was one of the most dramatic of the entire Middle Ages, leading to war and conquest on an unprecedented scale, and leaving a legacy of division that has lasted from his day to our own. In his astonishingly action-packed life, Edward defeated and killed the famous Simon de Montfort in battle; travelled across Europe to the Holy Land on crusade; conquered Wales, extinguishing forever its native rulers, and constructed - at Conwy, Harlech, Beaumaris and Caernarfon - the most magnificent chain of castles ever created. After the death of his first wife he erected the Eleanor Crosses - the grandest funeral monuments ever fashioned for an English monarch.
The Medieval Castle in England and Wales
Author | : Norman J. G. Pounds |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521458285 |
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This original and pioneering book examines the role of the castle in the Norman conquest of England and in the subsequent administration of the country. The castle is seen primarily as an instrument of peaceful administration which rarely had a garrison and was more often where the sheriff kept his files and employed his secretariat. In most cases the military significance of the castle was minimal, and only a very few ever saw military action. For the first time, the medieval castle in England is seen in a new light which will attract the general reader of history and archaeology as much as the specialist in economic and social history.
Castles and Landscapes
Author | : O. H. Creighton |
Publsiher | : Equinox Publishing Ltd. |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1904768679 |
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This paperback edition of a book first published in hardback in 2002 is a fascinating and provocative study which looks at castles in a new light, using the theories and methods of landscape studies.
The Idea of the Castle in Medieval England
Author | : Abigail Wheatley |
Publsiher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9781903153611 |
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A new way of looking at the medieval castle - as a cultural reflection of the society that produced it, seen through art and literature.
Life in a Medieval City
Author | : Frances Gies,Joseph Gies |
Publsiher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2010-08-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780062016676 |
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From acclaimed historians Frances and Joseph Gies comes the reissue of their classic book on day-to-day life in medieval cities, which was a source for George R.R. Martin’s Game of Thrones series. Evoking every aspect of city life in the Middle Ages, Life in a Medieval City depicts in detail what it was like to live in a prosperous city of Northwest Europe in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. The year is 1250 CE and the city is Troyes, capital of the county of Champagne and site of two of the cycle Champagne Fairs—the “Hot Fair” in August and the “Cold Fair” in December. European civilization has emerged from the Dark Ages and is in the midst of a commercial revolution. Merchants and money men from all over Europe gather at Troyes to buy, sell, borrow, and lend, creating a bustling market center typical of the feudal era. As the Gieses take us through the day-to-day life of burghers, we learn the customs and habits of lords and serfs, how financial transactions were conducted, how medieval cities were governed, and what life was really like for a wide range of people. For serious students of the medieval era and anyone wishing to learn more about this fascinating period, Life in a Medieval City remains a timeless work of popular medieval scholarship.
King John
Author | : Marc Morris |
Publsiher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2015-10-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781605988863 |
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King John is one of those historical characters who needs little in the way of introduction. If readers are not already familiar with him as the tyrant whose misgovernment gave rise to Magna Carta, we remember him as the villain in the stories of Robin Hood. Formidable and cunning, but also cruel, lecherous, treacherous and untrusting. Twelve years into his reign, John was regarded as a powerful king within the British Isles. But despite this immense early success, when he finally crosses to France to recover his lost empire, he meets with disaster. John returns home penniless to face a tide of criticism about his unjust rule. The result is Magna Carta – a ground-breaking document in posterity, but a worthless piece of parchment in 1215, since John had no intention of honoring it. Like all great tragedies, the world can only be put to rights by the tyrant’s death. John finally obliges at Newark Castle in October 1216, dying of dysentery as a great gale howls up the valley of the Trent.