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Crusader Castles (Hardcover, New edition)
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Crusader Castles (Hardcover, New edition)
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A new edition of the classic text on Crusader castles and their
relation to the military architecture of the West, written by T. E.
Lawrence (of Arabia) while still an undergraduate at Oxford in
1910. At the end of the nineteenth century, it was generally
assumed that these castles were the prototype for the massive
buildings erected in Northern France and England in the twelfth and
thirteenth centuries. Lawrence opposed this view: unlike most
earlier writers on the subject, he was already familiar with
castles in England, Wales, France and Syria as a result of a series
of expeditions made on bicycle or foot, culminating in 1909 in a
three-and-a-half month walking tour of the Levant. Although his
thesis was to guarantee him a first-class degree in Modern History,
its impact on scholarship was slower to take effect. The typescript
remained virtually unknown until 1936, a year after the author's
death, when it appeared in a limited edition of the Golden Cockerel
Press. Crusader Castles is now offered to a wider readership. The
original text is reproduced without alteration; but a selection of
the pencilled notes which Lawrence added to the typescript, in
preparation for a revision that was never made, are included as
footnotes, together with additional editorial notes and
bibliographical details. Lawrence's work is also assessed in the
light of seventy-five years of subsequent research, in an
introduction prepared by Denys Pringle.
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