Romanticised as ruins, treated as relics of forgotten military
campaigns or as mere lessons in architectural history, the castles
of England and Wales have too rarely been examined as places in
which real people lived. Fresh both in style and approach and
richly illustrated, Michael Thompson's book aims now to redress the
balance. Examining the rise of the castle from its European origins
in the tenth century to c.1400, the author devotes particular
attention to the domestic accommodation - colourfully adorned but
often cold and claustrophobic - that castles offered their
aristocratic inhabitants. The book closes with the castle at its
zenith, reviewing the extravagant outburst of self-conscious
construction that took place in the fourteenth century as display
and appearance came for the first time to play as important a part
as function in determining building design.
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