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The castle : a history / John Goodall.

Van Pelt Library DA660 .G645 2022
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Goodall, John (Historian), author.
Contributor:
Rosengarten Family Fund.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Castles--England--History.
Castles.
Great Britain--History.
Great Britain.
England.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:
viii, 392 pages : illustrations (some in colour) ; 23 cm
Place of Publication:
New Haven : Yale University Press, [2022]
Summary:
The castle has long had a pivotal place in English life, associated with lordship, landholding, and military might, and today it remains a powerful symbol of history. But castles have never been merely impressive fortresses - they were hubs of life, activity, and imagination. John Goodall weaves together the history of the English castle across the span of a millennium, from the eleventh to the twenty-first century, through the voices of those who witnessed it. Drawing on chronicles, poems, letters, and novels, including the work of figures like Gawain Poet, Walter Scott, Evelyn Waugh, and P. G. Wodehouse, Goodall explores the importance of the castle in our culture and society. From the medieval period to Civil War engagements, right up to modern manifestations in Harry Potter, Goodall reveals that the castle has always been put to different uses, and to this day continues to serve as a source of inspiration.
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: Themes
A Note on the Texts
The Word' Castle
Before 1200
655 Bamburgh
1066 Pevensey and Hastings
1066 Hastings Castle
1068 York, Warwick and Nottingham Castles
1081 Tower of London
1086 Richmond Castle
1095 Bamburgh and Tynemouth
1137
53 Hereford Castle
1139 Roger of Salisbury
1141 Castle Hedingham, Essex
1144-9 Durham Castle
c. 1150 The Principles of Castle Design
1158 Cardiff Castle
1174 Brough and Alnwick Castles
1181 Dover Castle
1190 York Castle
1200-1400
1204 Dublin Castle
1215 The Fall of Rochester Castle
1241 Tower of London
1265 Dover Castle
1277 Castle Building
1288 Montgomery Castle
1290 Winchester Castle
1296 Beaumaris Castle
c. 1300 Seal of Rochester
1300 Caerlaverock Casde
1303 Conwy Castle
c. 1320 The Castle of Love
1323 Tower of London
1330 Nottingham Castle
1342 Berkeley Casde
1344 Windsor Casde
1348 Stafford Castle After
1360 A Paper Castle
1375 The Tomb of Bishop Wyville of Salisbury
1381 Tower of London
1386 Sandwich
1399 Flint Castle
1400-1600
1401 Conwy Castle 1403
Alnwick and Warkworth Castles 1414
Kenilworth Castle 1439
Tattershall Castle
c.1450 Richmond
Castle
1462 Alnwick, Bamburgh and Dunstanburgh Castles
1474 A Licence to Crenellate and Impark
1485 Warwick Castle
1494 Durham Castle
1506 Carew Castle
1520 Dover Castle
1521 Thornbury Castle
1522 and 1536 Farleigh Hungerford Castle
1539 Deal Castle
1540 Belvoir Castle
1545 Wressle Castle
1553 Framlingham Castle
1554 Cooling Castle
1559 Tower of London
1562 Pontefract Castle
1575 Kenilworth Castle
1588 The House of Wollaton
1598 Tower of London
1600-1800
1618 Berkeley Castle
1622 Naworth Castle
1634 Ludlow Casde
1635 Winchester Castle
1645 Scarborough Castle
1648-9 Kenilworth Castle
1649 Skipton, Appleby, Brough and Brougham Castles
1665 Rochester Castle
1667 Capheaton
1670 Windsor Castle
1678 Doubting Castle
1683 Windsor Castle
1697 Warwick Casde
1715 Blenheim Castle
1726 Newark Castle
1730 Stainborough and Wentworth Castles
1745 Carlisle Castle
1764 The Castle of Otranto
1770 Alnwick Castle
1777 Pevensey, Hastings and Bodiam Castles
1782 Dinefwr Castle
1790s Ludlow, Arundel, Hedingham and Sudeley Castles
After 1800
1801 Belvoir Castle
1806 Lowther Castle
1809 Hawarden Castle
1819 Conisbrough Castle
1819 Gwrych Castle
1824 Windsor Castle
1831 Crotchet Castle
1839 Eglinton Castle
1841 Modern Castles
1844 Peckforton Castle
1854 Chirk Castle
1857 Specimens of Ancient Art
1874 Cardiff and Coch Castles
1899 Kenilwotth Castle
1911 Tattershall Castle
1921 Farleigh Hungerford
1923 Blandings Castle
1925 St Donat's Castle
1930 Castle Drogo, Devon
1940 World War II
1949 Godsend and Courantsdair Castles
1969 Caernarfon Castle
1997 Windsor Castle
1997 Hogwarts Castle
2009 Dover Castle
2012 Lancaster Castle.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 354-376) and index.
Local Notes:
Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
ISBN:
9780300251906
0300251904
OCLC:
1295101978

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