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The essential companion to discover the styles, architecture, form,
significance and historical impact of castles from all over the
world. How to Read Castles is a travel-size primer that takes a
strictly visual approach to castle architecture, building up your
vocabulary of castle types, styles and materials, and showing you
how these aspects can be recognised across architectural features
from the floor-plan and moat, to the towers and crenulations.
Focusing on the 10th-16th century period, and crusading across the
globe from a Welsh motte-and-bailey to a Japanese hirajiro, this is
both an architectural reference and a visitor's guide showing you
how to read the stories embedded in every castle's stones. Castles
once dominated the landscape as seats of power and symbols of
wealth and status, providing a means of control over borders,
passes, routes and rivers. Armed with this book you will be able to
unpick their histories and see how they shaped the land around
them. From rugged coastline defences to soaring mountain
fortresses, this book takes you on an international journey of
discovery, exploring some of the most inspiring and impressive
architecture history has ever seen.
This book explains in detail the practice of masoncraft in the
Middle Ages, using evidence from a number of sources. Monastic
chronicles, building contracts and other contemporary documents
have already revealed a good deal of information on the subject,
but less attention has, until now, been paid to archaeological
evidence preserved in numerous surviving Medieval buildings. Dr
Hislop investigates how a study of certain features in these
buildings, such as the stonework and building joints, can
contribute to our knowledge of working practices of masons in
medieval England. By focusing on how to interpret clues in the
building structure, this account provides a practical guide to
pursuing the study of masonry, and helps the reader to understand
and identify the medieval mason's approach to design and
constructional techniques.
In Castle Builders, Malcolm Hislop looks at the hugely popular
subject of castles from the unusual perspective of design and
construction. In this general introduction to the subject, we
discover something of the personalities behind their creation - the
architects and craftsmen - and, furthermore, the techniques they
employed, and how style and technology was disseminated. Castle
Builders takes both a thematic and a chronological approach to the
design and construction of castles, providing the reader with clear
lines of development. Themes include earth, timber and stone
construction techniques, the evolution of the great tower, the
development of military engineering, the progression of domestic
accommodation, and the degree to which aesthetics contributed to
castle design. AUTHOR: Malcolm Hislop is a buildings archaeologist
and author with a special interest in medieval buildings. His
doctoral thesis was based around the career of the Durham master
mason, John Lewyn, one of the most prolific castle builders of the
fourteenth century, and he has continued to maintain a keen
interest in the process of medieval building design and
construction. He is the author of John Lewyn of Durham, How to
Build a Cathedral and How to Read Castles. Born in Yorkshire, he
now lives in north-east Wales. 150 colour illustrations
A report on the archaeological and historical investigations
undertaken at Tutbury Castle, Staffordshire. The town of Tutbury is
situated on the eastern border of Staffordshire in central England
some 15km south west of Derby and 6.5km north west of Burton upon
Trent. Around 1068-69 the Normans founded a motte and bailey castle
on a tactically advantageous bluff above the town with the
strategic purpose of controlling important north-south and
east-west routes of communication. Attacks on the castle in the
12th, 13th and 14th centuries may be cited as evidence of a
continuing military significance down to 1322, when, as one of
Thomas earl of Lancaster's castles, it was sacked by the forces of
Edward II. As part of the duchy of Lancaster estate it became a
royal property from 1399 and was extensively rebuilt during the
15th century; it is this late medieval phase that plays the most
significant part in defining the architectural character of the
castle today. The Civil War revived interest in the strategic and
tactical advantages of the site, and ultimately led to the castle's
destruction, although an afterlife ensued in the 18th century as a
farm and romantic ruin.
This report outlines the results of archaeological investigations
at Old Hall Street, Wolverhampton, West Midlands, UK (NGR SO
916984), carried out between 2000 and 2007. The results of the
archaeological work have been combined with documentary,
cartographic and genealogical studies, together with finds and
scientific analyses, to present a broad interpretation of the
history of settlement in the area and the motives behind it.
James of St George has a reputation as one of the most significant
castle builders of the Middle Ages. His origins and early career at
the heart of Europe, and his subsequent masterminding of Edward I
of England's castle-building programmes in Wales and Scotland,
bestow upon him an international status afforded to few other
master builders retained by the English crown. The works erected
under his leadership represent what many consider to be the apog e
of castle development in the British Isles, and Malcolm Hislop's
absorbing new study of the architecture is the most important
reassessment to be published in recent times. His book explores the
evolution of the Edwardian castle and James of St George's
contribution to it. He gives a fascinating insight into the design,
construction and organisation of such large-scale building
projects, and the structural, military and domestic characters of
the castles themselves. James's work on castles in the medieval
duchy of Savoy is revisited, as are the native and foreign
influences on the design of those he built for Edward I. Some
seventy years after A.J. Taylor began his pioneering research into
James of St George and his connection with Wales, the time is ripe
for this revaluation of James's impact and of the extent of his
influence on the architectural character of the
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