A Few Well-Positioned Castles - Softcover

Prior, Stuart

 
9780752436517: A Few Well-Positioned Castles
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0752436511 ISBN 13: 9780752436517
Verlag: Tempus, 2006

Inhaltsangabe

Despite years of castle studies, the strategies, tactics, and stratagems that underpinned Norman castle warfare remain largely unexplored. This book outlines a strategic approach to castles, arguing that "it was not what was built, but where it was built" that was the key to Norman success. Castles are placed into context via landscape archaeology, and a study of contemporary and later sources. Castle positioning in the landscapes of Somerset, Monmouthshire, and County Meath are examined in detail. Above all, the author argues, it is necessary to see the Normans as part of a wider European phenomenon that drew its inspiration from the Roman Empire.

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Dr Stuart Prior is a Teaching Fellow at the University of Bristol. This is his first book.

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Verlag
Tempus
Erscheinungsdatum
2006
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0752436511
ISBN 13 
9780752436517
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
256
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