Castles in Medieval Society: Fortresses in England, France, and Ireland in the Central Middle Ages - Hardcover

Coulson, Charles L. H.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0198208243 ISBN 13: 9780198208242

Verlag: OUP Oxford, 2003

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Book by Coulson Charles

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...There can be no doubt that this is an important, agenda-setting work...nobody with any interest in the medieval castle can afford to ignore it.

Reseña del editor:

In this challenging new book Charles Coulson overturns many of the traditional assumptions about the nature and purpose of castle-building in the middle ages. He demolishes the traditional belief that castles were overwhelmingly military in their function, showing how this was simply one aspect of a more complicated whole. He sets out to recreate the medieval understanding of castles as symbolically fortified places of all kinds, from ancient walled post-Roman towns and prestigious religious enclaves to transitory campaign forts.

Going back to the original sources, Dr Coulson proposes a new and more subtle understanding of the function and symbolism of castles as well as vivid insights into the lives of the people who inhabited them. Fortresses were only occasionally caught up in war, but constantly were central to the ordinary life of all classes: of the nobility and gentry, of widows and heiresses, of prelates and clergy, of peasantry and townspeople alike. Castles in Medieval Society presents and explores this broad social panorama.

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• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0198208243
• ISBN 13: 9780198208242
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 454