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Specialized and systematic dictionary.
'A lovely, uplifting, summery read. ' Bestselling author, Lisa
Hobman 'A wonderful summer read. It had everything - romance,
family, forgiveness and second chances. Highly recommended!'
Bestselling author, Alison Sherlock Every end has a new
beginning... When Pixie Sampson's husband tragically dies, she
inherits the beautiful Chateau Quiltu in Brittany, Northern France.
But unbeknown to her, she also inherits a mysterious lodger,
Justine Martin and her 4-year-old son Ferdie. Heartbroken and with
her adventurous Mum, Gwen in tow, they travel to France to put the
Chateau on the market but are soon drawn into a quest to seek the
Chateau's secrets. Who is Justine? Why is she living at the
Chateau? How did she know her husband? Over the Summer months, the
Chateau fills with family and laughter and secrets are discovered
and old wounds begin to heal. Escape to the Chateau with top 10
international bestseller Jennifer Bohnet, for an uplifting story of
family, love and second chances. What readers are saying about
Summer at the Chateau:'This book was a wonderful story full of
likeable characters, grief, forgiveness, family, new beginnings,
and second chances.' 'An uplifting and wise tale.' 'Emotional and
realistic, a wonderful read.' 'A feel good read, dealing mainly
with themes as forgiveness, family and second chances.' 'A very
well written book, set in a beautiful and superbly described
location.' 'I really do think each one of Jennifer's books I read
becomes my new favourite.' If you are looking for your next read to
give you that escape from reality, lockdown and life with Covid,
that I think we all need right now, this is one for you.'
This book takes an affectionate journey around some of the
atmospheric and occasionally mysterious ruins and follies that can
be found in East Anglia. It might be a building that has a
particular historical, cultural or other significant interest but
which is, at the time of writing, in such a state of disrepair that
its restoration is either impractical or unlikely - or, in the
cases of particularly old buildings, for example castles, not a
consideration for obvious reasons. Or it might be a folly, a
building that is still wholly complete and standing but was solely
constructed for ornamental purposes and often for no practical use
other than for the planners involved to 'prove' that it could be
done. With a design that is often deliberately eye-catching,
eccentric or even controversial in appearance, Edward Couzens-Lake
investigates the reasons for this quirk, looking at, for example,
the Victorian 'fashion' for making buildings that had a utilitarian
purpose, such as workhouses or water towers, as ornamental in
design as possible. Featuring forty-five such sites that fit into
those descriptions, together with an accompanying set of
photographs, each ruin or folly selected will include a concise and
informative narrative relating to the reasons for its construction,
its history and, where relevant, its present day function. Edward
Couzens-Lake also looks at the future of some of the ruins and
follies featured - do they have a future? Are they under threat?
Might they eventually be lost to the landscape altogether, or do
they have a function to play in the modern world? This charming and
fascinating book looks to answer some of these questions.
A compendium of 28 beautiful, historical Scottish Castles for local
and visitor alikeScotland: A land with rich history, wild
landscapes and some of the most beautiful castles on Earth. There
have been over 2000 castles in scottish history; some have been
preserved in superb condition, some lie in picturesque ruin and
others have been resigned to historical records.Discover the story
of the well-trodden fortress of Edinburgh Castle, uncover the
beautiful remoteness of Eileen Donan and learn all about Castle
Urquhart, on the banks of Loch Ness. These are the sites of feuds,
the homes of royalty and the locations of great battles.This Pitkin
guide takes the reader on a tour of 28 of Scotland's most
magnificent castles. Revised for 2019, it makes a perfect addition
to the literature for any visitor to the country.
'A lovely, uplifting, summery read. ' Bestselling author, Lisa
Hobman 'A wonderful summer read. It had everything - romance,
family, forgiveness and second chances. Highly recommended!'
Bestselling author, Alison Sherlock Every end has a new
beginning... When Pixie Sampson's husband tragically dies, she
inherits the beautiful Chateau Quiltu in Brittany, Northern France.
But unbeknown to her, she also inherits a mysterious lodger,
Justine Martin and her 4-year-old son Ferdie. Heartbroken and with
her adventurous Mum, Gwen in tow, they travel to France to put the
Chateau on the market but are soon drawn into a quest to seek the
Chateau's secrets. Who is Justine? Why is she living at the
Chateau? How did she know her husband? Over the Summer months, the
Chateau fills with family and laughter and secrets are discovered
and old wounds begin to heal. Escape to the Chateau with top 10
international bestseller Jennifer Bohnet, for an uplifting story of
family, love and second chances. What readers are saying about
Summer at the Chateau:'This book was a wonderful story full of
likeable characters, grief, forgiveness, family, new beginnings,
and second chances.' 'An uplifting and wise tale.' 'Emotional and
realistic, a wonderful read.' 'A feel good read, dealing mainly
with themes as forgiveness, family and second chances.' 'A very
well written book, set in a beautiful and superbly described
location.' 'I really do think each one of Jennifer's books I read
becomes my new favourite.' If you are looking for your next read to
give you that escape from reality, lockdown and life with Covid,
that I think we all need right now, this is one for you.'
An innovative examination of heritage politics in Japan, showing
how castles have been used to re-invent and recapture competing
versions of the pre-imperial past and project possibilities for
Japan's future. Oleg Benesch and Ran Zwigenberg argue that Japan's
modern transformations can be traced through its castles. They
examine how castle preservation and reconstruction campaigns served
as symbolic ways to assert particular views of the past and were
crucial in the making of an idealized premodern history. Castles
have been used to craft identities, to create and erase memories,
and to symbolically join tradition and modernity. Until 1945, they
served as physical and symbolic links between the modern military
and the nation's premodern martial heritage. After 1945, castles
were cleansed of military elements and transformed into public
cultural spaces that celebrated both modernity and the pre-imperial
past. What were once signs of military power have become symbols of
Japan's idealized peaceful past.
Ever since humans began to live together in settlements they have felt the need to organise some kind of defence against potentially hostile neighbours. Many of the earliest city states were built as walled towns, and during the medieval era, stone castles were built both as symbols of the defenders' strength and as protection against potential attack. The advent of cannon prompted fortifications to become lower, denser and more complex, and the forts of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries could appear like snowflakes in their complexity and beautiful geometry. Without forts, the history of America could have taken a very different course, pirates could have sailed the seas unchecked, and Britain itself could have been successfully invaded.
This book explains the history of human fortifications, and is beautifully illustrated using photographs, plans, drawings and maps to explain why they were built, their various functions and their immense historical legacy in laying the foundations of empire.
Billy Colfer's Wexford Castles expands the IRISH LANDSCAPES series
by taking a thematic approach, while still staying loyal to the
central landscape focus. Rather than adapting a narrowly
architectural approach, he situates these buildings in a superbly
reconstructed historical, social, and cultural milieu. County
Wexford has three strikingly different regions - the Anglo-Norman
south, the hybridised middle and the Gaelic north - which render it
a remarkable version in parvo of the wider island. Colfer's
wide-angle lens takes in so much than the castles themselves, as he
ranges widely and deeply in reading these striking buildings as
texts, revealing the cultural assumptions and historical
circumstances which shaped them. In this most cosmopolitan of
counties, we range far and wide in search of the wide-spreading
roots of its cultural landscape - from the Crusades and the Mani
peninsula in Greece to the Bristol Channel, from Crac des
Chevaliers to Westminster, from the Viking north and the cold
Atlantic to the warm Mediterranean south. The book breaks new
ground in exploring the long-run cultural shadow cast by the
Anglo-Normans and their castles, as this appears in the Gothic
Revival, in the poetry of Yeats and in the surprisingly profuse
crop of Wexford historians and writers. While most books on a
single architectural form can end up visually monotonous,
creativity has been lavished on this volume in terms of keeping the
images varied, fresh and constantly appealing. The result is a
sympathetic and innovative treatment of the castles, understood not
just as a mere architectural form, but as keys to unlocking the
mentalite of those who lived in them. Wexford Castles: landscape,
context and settlement is a worthy conclusion of Billy's Colfer's
superb trilogy of landscape studies.
This collection of essays presents an overview of the
fortifications that guarded the frontiers and borderlands between
Native Americans, French settlers, and Anglo-American settlers.
Civilian, provincial, or imperial, the fortifications examined here
range from South Carolina's Fort Prince George to Fort Frontenac in
Ontario and Fort de Chartres in Illinois.
This is a detailed guide to the physical remains, history and
topography of the castles of northwest Greece from the early
Byzantine period to the eve of the First World War.
Castles were among the most dramatic features of the medieval
landscapes of Europe and are still often dominant elements of our
surroundings. They have been an enduring subject of fascination for
professional and amateur alike for well over a century. This book
offers an accessible and portable guide to the archaeology and
architecture of castles in England and Wales, an area whose castles
had some common developments in the medieval period and which now
provides numerous and rich sites for both study and visit. A
particular quality of the book is that it approaches the subject
from a variety of perspectives. Architectural aspects of masonry
castles are examined, as are the remains of earth and timber sites.
Throughout, attention is given to the social and domestic, as well
as to the military significance of castles and the aspirations of
their builders. The authors explore many recent and exciting
developments in the field of castles studies. The contribution of
landscape history to the study of castles in their wider contexts
is highlighted, as are innovative ways of analysing the fabric of
masonry castles and the social messages which they contain.
Finally, emphasis is given to the new light cats by archaeological
excavation on the enigmatic timber castles that were such common
features of the medieval world.
This book is a critical study of the role played by architecture
and texts in promoting political and religious ideologies in the
ancient world. It explains a palace as an element in royal
propaganda seeking to influence social concepts about kingship, and
a text about a temple as influencing social concepts about the
relationship between God and human beings. Applying the methods of
analysis developed in built environment studies, the author
interprets the palace and temple building programs of Sennacherib,
King of Assyria, and Solomon, King of Israel. The physical evidence
for the palace and the verbal evidence for the temple are explained
as presenting communicative icons intended to influence
contemporary political and religious concepts. The volume concludes
with innovative interpretations of the contributions of
architectural and verbal icons to religious and political reform.
The capture of Jerusalem by the First Crusade in 1099 signalled the
beginning of an armed struggle in Palestine and throughout the
Eastern Mediterranean which lasted until the fifteenth century. It
was a war dominated by the building, securing and besieging of
castles rather than by pitched battles. Kristian Molin covers the
military history of the crusades on a wider geographical scale than
previous historians, taking in Armenia, Cyprus and Greece as well
as the Holy Land. He also shows the role of castles as
administrative, judicial and social centres in times of peace as
well as in war. "Unknown Crusader Castles" provides a fresh
perspective on the history of the crusades.
Eltz Castle near Koblenz deeply impressed many visitors. The German
art-historian Georg Dehio declared it 'the castle par exellence'.
This book describes its history and takes readers through the
interior of the castle as well as through the treasure vault.
Victor Hugo was simply impressed by the castle: "High, mighty,
suprising, sombre", he wrote in his diary after his visit and
continued: "I have never seen anything like it." To the English
travel writer Katharine Macquoid it was "a fairy-tale in stone."
Eltz Castle with its 850-years history and its picturesque setting
still is the quintessence of a castle today. This book describes
the beginnings and the history of Eltz Castle. It takes the readers
through the interior of the castle as well as through the treasure
vault, describes in detail the pieces of furniture and artworks and
gives a vivid picture of what life in this castle was like in the
past centuries. The discovery of Eltz Castle as a tourist site in
the 19th century is dealt with, as is the castle's significance in
art and literature. Nearly one hundered colour illustrations
complement the text.
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