Castles of the MoreaFirst published in 1953, this book presents a description of 16 of the larger medieval fortresses in the Peloponnese, occupied by the Venetians between 1685 and 1715. It is also a beautifully written celebration of some of Greece's most striking, but also least studied, architectural monuments, inspired by a unique collection of 17th-century fortification plans (the Grimani codex) preserved in the Gennadius Library of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. The author first saw the plans in 1948 and devoted the next four years of his life to a historical and archaeological investigation of the castles they depicted. At a time when most of the students at the American School were studying the classics, his interest in later Greek history was pioneering. He not only searched out hundreds of obscure documentary sources but also made a point of visiting, and personally describing and photographing, every castle. This was not an easy thing to do at the tail end of the Greek Civil War. The final publication was an instant classic, marked out by its evocative prose and Andrews's obvious fascination with the subject. The book has been long out of print. This new edition presents Andrews's original text with a new introduction which sets the work in context and discusses some of the developments in Greek castle studies since the 1950s. The Grimani maps, originally printed only in black and white, are now presented in their original colors. |
Contents
Section 1 | 135 |
Section 2 | 141 |
Section 3 | 144 |
Section 4 | 155 |
Section 5 | 157 |
Section 6 | 159 |
Section 7 | 160 |
Section 8 | 161 |
Section 14 | 183 |
Section 15 | 189 |
Section 16 | 192 |
Section 17 | 195 |
Section 18 | 209 |
Section 19 | 211 |
Section 20 | 214 |
Section 21 | 219 |
Section 9 | 162 |
Section 10 | 173 |
Section 11 | 174 |
Section 12 | 179 |
Section 13 | 180 |
Section 22 | 237 |
Section 23 | 239 |
Section 24 | 242 |
Section 25 | 257 |
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Common terms and phrases
Achaea Acrocorinth angle arch Argolid Argos Arkadia artillery ashlar Athens attack bastion battering Borgo brick building built Byzantine Canea captured Castle of Morea century chemin de ronde Chlemoutsi circuit cistern citadel cliff Corinth corner Corone crenellated cut poros defenses Despot ditch doue Drepanon east eastern embrasures Emperor enclosure Euboea face feet high Fianco flanking towers Fortezza fortifications fortress Frankish galleries gate Glarentza Greece Greek Grimani arms Holy League Ibid inner redout island Kalamata Latin limestone loopholes lower town masonry Methone Mistra Monemvasia Morea Morosini Mura Nauplia Negroponte Old Navarino outer curtain Palaiologos Palamedi parapet Passi Patras Peloponnese PIANTA platform poros poros blocks Porta Porto poste Posto Prince of Achaea ramparts Recinto rock round tower Scala side siege Sitto slope square terrepleined Theodore tion Tornese Turchi Turkish Turks upper vaulted Venetian Venice western Zarnata καὶ