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The essential companion to discover the styles, architecture, form, significance and historical impact of castles from all over the world.
How to Read Castles is a travel-size primer that takes a strictly visual approach to castle architecture, building up your vocabulary of castle types, styles and materials, and showing you how these aspects can be recognised across architectural features from the floor-plan and moat, to the towers and crenulations.
Focusing on the 10th-16th century period, and crusading across the globe from a Welsh motte-and-bailey to a Japanese hirajiro, this is both an architectural reference and a visitor's guide showing you how to read the stories embedded in every castle's stones.
Castles once dominated the landscape as seats of power and symbols of wealth and status, providing a means of control over borders, passes, routes and rivers. Armed with this book you will be able to unpick their histories and see how they shaped the land around them. From rugged coastline defences to soaring mountain fortresses, this book takes you on an international journey of discovery, exploring some of the most inspiring and impressive architecture history has ever seen.
Contents
Introduction
The Grammar of Castles
Function
Design & Construction
Castle Types
Destruction & Revival
Castles: Feature by Feature
The Great Tower
The Enceinte
Tower, Turrets & Bartizans
The Entrance
Barbicans
Wallhead Defences
Accommodation
Chapels
Dungeons, Oubliettes & Prisons
Doors & Windows
Water Supply & Sanitation
Heating
Staircases
Glossary
Resources
Gazetteer
Index
Acknowledgements
