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Life in the castle in medieval England /

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : British Heritage Press : Distributed by Crown Publishers, 1983, �1978.Description: 120 pages : illustrations, map ; 26 cmISBN:
  • 0517405113
  • 9780517405116
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 942 19
LOC classification:
  • DA660 .B89 1983
Contents:
Acknowledgements -- List of illustrations -- 1: From timber to stone -- 2: Family and retainers -- 3: Demesne -- 4: Unwelcome visitors -- 5: Welcome visitors -- 6: From fortress to manor house -- Select bibliography -- Index.
Summary: From Book Jacket's flap: Castles exert a powerful influence on our imagination. The walls echo our footsteps once echoed to long-past laugher, revelry, the ring of he armorer's anvil, the clatter of horses' hooves. Above all we want to know the detail of life then. How was the household organized and run from day to day? Where were clothes washed? What did lord and servant eat? Where did they sleep? How and why castles built? The text is lavishly illustrated with over 100 fascinating picture of basic amenities, discomfort (Henry III insisted that the constable of the Tower of London have another privy put in 'even though it should cost a hundred pounds'), pageantry, warfare, and administration of an brutal feudal system. Binding the detail into a broader scheme, John Burke enables the reader to see the castle in the context of medieval society (the role it played in the countryside, its political and military importance, the sort of life it sustained) and to get a clear picture of castle development from early motte and bailey forts through the great Norman and high medieval period to castle's transformation into the manor house.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Vol info Copy number Status Date due Barcode
NF NF Chamberlin Free Public Library Nonfiction 942 BUR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) DA660 .B89 1983 1 Available 34517000207657

Reprint. Originally published: London : B.T. Batsford, 1978.

Includes bibliographical references (page 118) and index.

Acknowledgements -- List of illustrations -- 1: From timber to stone -- 2: Family and retainers -- 3: Demesne -- 4: Unwelcome visitors -- 5: Welcome visitors -- 6: From fortress to manor house -- Select bibliography -- Index.

From Book Jacket's flap: Castles exert a powerful influence on our imagination. The walls echo our footsteps once echoed to long-past laugher, revelry, the ring of he armorer's anvil, the clatter of horses' hooves. Above all we want to know the detail of life then. How was the household organized and run from day to day? Where were clothes washed? What did lord and servant eat? Where did they sleep? How and why castles built? The text is lavishly illustrated with over 100 fascinating picture of basic amenities, discomfort (Henry III insisted that the constable of the Tower of London have another privy put in 'even though it should cost a hundred pounds'), pageantry, warfare, and administration of an brutal feudal system. Binding the detail into a broader scheme, John Burke enables the reader to see the castle in the context of medieval society (the role it played in the countryside, its political and military importance, the sort of life it sustained) and to get a clear picture of castle development from early motte and bailey forts through the great Norman and high medieval period to castle's transformation into the manor house.

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