"The last decade has seen a revolution in our understanding of the castle. Previously scholars have viewed it as essentially a military structure: a building wh

A collection of the most significant articles in castle studies, with contributions from scholars in history, archaeology, historic buildings and landscape arch

Wide-ranging studies offer an in-depth analysis of castle-building 11th - 12th centuries and place castles within their broader social and political context. Th

Despite an ever-expanding literature on Irish castles, the relationships between the castle building tradition in Ireland and those of contemporary Europe have

This paperback edition of a book first published in hardback in 2002 is a fascinating and provocative study which looks at castles in a new light, using the the