Chillingham: Its Cattle, Castle and Church

Edited by: Paul Bahn

ISBN 10: 1781555222 / ISBN 13: 9781781555224

Verlag: Fonthill Media Ltd, 2016

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 40d8a8445e652e02fabfac39e6ff4df3

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The first comprehensive book about Chillingham in Northumberland-its unique wild cattle, its historic castle and church, and the family associated with them since the twelfth century. Julius Caesar admired the cattle's ancestors for their brute strength, Sir Walter Scott immortalised them. They were painted by Sir Edwin Landseer and Archibald Thorburn, and depicted at their best by Thomas Bewick, the master engraver. Darwin studied them and wrote about them in the 'Descent of Man'. The historian Simon Schama described the Chillingham cattle as "the great, perhaps the greatest icon of British natural history". The Castle's history is chequered and the nobles who lived there even more so. Incest, adultery, witchcraft, torture, kingmakers and traitors, a cricketer and a cowboy are all part of its history, resulting in its modern reputation for cruel and benign ghosts still regularly seen in the castle. Founded around 1184, the country church, in its simplicity hides a fifteenth-century tomb described as "one of the finest such monuments in the country outside a cathedral". Edited by Dr Paul G. Bahn and Vera Mutimer, with a foreword by HRH Prince Charles, the Prince of Wales.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: The editors: Dr. Paul Bahn, an editor of numerous archaeological and humourous books including CUP's "Cambridge World Prehistory" and "Disgraceful Archaeology" and Mrs. Vera Mutimer, a trustee of the Chillingham Wild Cattle Association.

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Titel: Chillingham: Its Cattle, Castle and Church
Verlag: Fonthill Media Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: new