Late Medieval Castles

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Robert Liddiard
Boydell & Brewer, 2016 - Architecture - 425 pages
A collection of the most significant articles in castle studies, with contributions from scholars in history, archaeology, historic buildings and landscape archaeology.

The castles of the late medieval period represent some of the finest medieval monuments in Britain, with an almost infinite capacity to fascinate and draw controversy. They are also a source of considerable academic debate.
The contents of this volume represent key works in castle scholarship. Topics discussed include castle warfare, fortress customs, architectural design and symbolism, spatial planning and the depiction of castles in medieval romance. The contributions also serve to highlight the diversity of approaches to the medieval castle, ranging from the study of documentary and literary sources, analysis of fragmentary architectural remains and the recording of field archaeology. The result is a survey that offers an in-depth analysis of castle building from the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries, and places castles within their broader social, architectural and political contexts.

Robert Liddiard is Professor of History, University of East Anglia.

Contributors: Nicola Coldstream, Charles Coulson, Philip Dixon, Graham Fairclough, P.A. Faulkner, John Goodall, Beryl Lott, Charles McKean, T.E. McNeill, Richard K. Morris, Michael Prestwich, Christopher Taylor, Muriel A. Whitaker.

 

Contents

Introduction
1
Apotheosis or Decline?
19
2 Architects Advisors and Design at Edward Is Castles in Wales
41
Contexts and Symbols in the Development of Late Medieval Great Houses
61
4 Castle Planning in the Fourteenth Century
79
Spatial and Functional Analysis of Medieval Buildings
101
the ManorHouses of the AngloScottish Border
127
7 Lulworth Castle Dorset
157
11 Some Analysis of the Castle of Bodiam East Sussex
241
12 English Castles in the Reign of Edward II
303
13 Castles of Ward and the Changing Pattern of Border Conflict in Ireland
323
the Castle as Theatre
333
Castle Symbolism in the Reigns of Edward I and his Successors
349
16 Medieval Ornamental Landscapes
375
17 Otherworld Castles in Middle English Arthurian Romance
393
Guide to Further Reading
409

8 A Scottish Problem with Castles
167
9 Structural Symbolism in Medieval Castle Architecture
199
10 Specimens of Freedom to Crenellate by Licence
221

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