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The Idea of the Castle in Medieval England

Paperback • 2015 • 1. edition

The Idea of the Castle in Medieval England

By Abigail Wheatley

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About the book

Medieval castles have traditionally been explained as feats of military engineering and tools of feudal control, but Abigail Wheatley takes a different approach, looking at a range of sources usually neglected in castle studies. Evidence from contemporary literature and art reveals the castle's place at the heart of medieval culture, as an architecture of ideas every bit as sophisticated as the church architecture of the period. This study offers a genuinely fresh perspective. Most castle schola...Show more

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9781903153611

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York Medieval Press

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2015

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The Idea of the Castle in Medieval England

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