Timber Castles (Exeter Studies in Medieval Europe) （2ND）

Higham, Robert/ Barker, Philip

University of Exeter Press（2012/08発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 392 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780859898812
• DDC分類 728.81

Full Description

Runner-up for the book award in the 1994 British Archaeological Awards, Timber Castles is the standard work on the subject and hugely influential in its field. Its reissue makes available again this much sought after text with a new preface by Robert Higham. Some of the greatest medieval castles survive only as earthworks and in pictures and written accounts . . . because they were made of timber. Robert Higham and Philip Barker, who excavated in detail the timber castle at Hen Domen in Wales, have brought together evidence of all kinds to produce the first comprehensive survey of this neglected and little-known type of fortification.

Contents

List of illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
1. Timber castles: their study and background
2. Origins of timber castles in the British Isles
3. Origins of timber castles in Europe
4. The documentary contribution
5. The pictorial evidence
6. Stone and timber
7. The earthworks of timber castles
8. The structure of timber castles: the excavated evidence and its interpretation
9. Hen Domen, Montgomery: a case-study
10. Epilogue
11. Gazetteer of excavations in Great Britain and Ireland
Appendices:
A. Timber castle vocabulary
B. Castel
Notes
Further reading
Index