Castles in Medieval Society: Fortresses in England, France, and Ireland in the Central Middle Ages
By Charles Coulson.
Description
`The vast majority of castles in England, Wales, Ireland, and France have virtually no `military history' of sieges or physical conflict across the whole panorama of more than five centuries'. This is quite a sobering thought. But surely castles were built just in case there was an attack and the fact that few were involved in conflict makes no difference? Charles Coulson challenges our perceptions about what a castle was, why they were built and how they functioned. Through a wealth of textual material (with full or long excerpts given) he argues that castles were a different, al...
ISBN(s)
0198208243, 9780198208242
