Castles in medieval society: fortresses in England, France, and Ireland in the central Middle Ages

"In this new book Charles Coulson overturns many of the traditional assumptions about the nature and purpose of castle-building in the middle ages." "Going back to the original sources, Dr. Coulson proposes a new and more subtle understanding of the function and symbolism of castles a...

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1. Verfasser: Coulson, Charles (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Oxford [u.a.] Oxford Univ. Press 2003
Ausgabe:1. publ.
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Zusammenfassung:"In this new book Charles Coulson overturns many of the traditional assumptions about the nature and purpose of castle-building in the middle ages." "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 providing 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."--BOOK JACKET.
Beschreibung:XI, 441 S.
ISBN:0198208243

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