THE CASTLE IN ENGLAND AND WALES: AN INTERPRETIVE HISTORY
Written by D.J. Cathcart King
Published by Croom Helm Ltd.
in 1988
ISBN: 0709948298
- Categorised in:
- TOPOGRAPHY (UK)
- TOPOGRAPHY (UK GENERAL)
- CASTLES
- HISTORY
- HISTORY (MEDIEVAL)
- WALES
- ARCHAEOLOGY
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Front cover
Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- 1. The Character of a Castle
- 2. Castle-Guard
- 3. Control over Castles, at Home and Abroad
- 4. On the Development of Castles
- 5. The Origins of the Castle
- 6. The Primitive English Castle - Earthwork
- 7. The Primitive English Castle - Stone
- 8. The Influence of the Crusades
- 9. The Introduction of Scientific Fortification
- 10. The Thirteenth and Early Fourteenth Centuries
- 11. The Castles of the Welsh
- 12. The Fourteenth Century
- 13. The Fifteenth Century, and Early Artillery Defences
- 14. Henry VIII and Coast Defence
- Appendix: A Note on Keeps
- Index