The Rise of the Castle

by M.W. Thompson

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521088534
• ISBN13: 9780521088534
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.4" x 9.7"