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

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

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