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Anglo-Saxon Towers of Lordship (Hardcover)
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Anglo-Saxon Towers of Lordship (Hardcover)
Series: Medieval History and Archaeology
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It has long been assumed that England lay outside the Western
European tradition of castle-building until after the Norman
Conquest of 1066. It is now becoming apparent that Anglo-Saxon
lords had been constructing free-standing towers at their
residences all across England over the course of the tenth and
eleventh centuries. Initially these towers were exclusively of
timber, and quite modest in their scale, although only a handful
are known from archaeological excavation. There followed the
so-called 'tower-nave' churches, towers with only a tiny chapel
located inside, which appear to have had a dual function as
buildings of elite worship and symbols of secular power and
authority. For the first time, this book gathers together the
evidence for these remarkable buildings, many of which still stand
incorporated into the fabric of Norman and later parish churches
and castles. It traces their origin in monasteries, where kings and
bishops drew upon Continental European practice to construct
centrally-planned, tower-like chapels for private worship and
burial, and to mark gates and important entrances, particularly
within the context of the tenth-century Monastic Reform. Adopted by
the secular aristocracy to adorn their own manorial sites, it
argues that many of the known examples would have provided
strategic advantage as watchtowers over roads, rivers and
beacon-systems, and have acted as focal points for the mustering of
troops. The tower-nave form persisted into early Norman England,
where it may have influenced a variety of high-status building
types, such as episcopal chapels and monastic belltowers, and even
the keeps and gatehouses of the earliest stone castles. The aim of
this book is to finally establish the tower-nave as an important
Anglo-Saxon building type, and to explore the social,
architectural, and landscape contexts in which they operated.
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