Table of Contents

Ann Williams A Bell-House and a Burh-Geat: Lordly Residences in England Before the Conquest; Richard Eales Royal Power and Castles in Norman England; Derek Renn Burhgeat and Gonfanon: Two Sidelights from the Bayeux Tapestry; Lawrence Butler The Origins of the Honour of Richmond and its Castles; Robert Higham Timber Castles: A Reassessment; Marjorie Chibnall Orderic Vitalis on Castles; R. Allen Brown Royal Castle Building in England 1154-1216; Charles Coulson The Castles of the Anarchy; Sidney Painter Castle-Guard; Frederick. Suppe Castle Guard and the Castlery of Clun; Grant G. Simpson and Bruce Webster Charter Evidence and the Distribution of Mottes in Scotland; John R. Kenyon Fluctuating Frontiers: Normanno-Welsh Castle Warfare c.1075 to 1240; Thomas McNeill Hibernia Pactata et Castellata; Sandy Heslop Orford Castle: Nostalgia and Sophisticated Living; Philip Dixon and Pamela Marshall The Great Tower at Hedingham Castle: A Reassessment; John Blair Hall and Chamber: English Domestic Planning 1000-1250; Charles Coulson Fortress Policy in Capetian Tradition and Angevin Practice: Aspects of the Conquest of Normandy by Philip II; Charles Coulson The Impact of Bouvines upon the Fortress Policy of Philip Augustus; Richard Eales Castles and Politics in England, 1215-1224

Reviews

A very useful collection of articles [and] a representative spread of the most important topics.[...][An] essential starting point for anyone interested in the topic of castles in the High Middle Ages.
*CEAS NEWSLETTER*

Immensely valuable. [Its] great merit is that it should be of interest well beyond this field, emphasizing that castle study is not a self-contained pocket of scholarship but has an important wider role to play in medieval studies generally. An invaluable work of reference, [it] should be on the bookshelf of any castellologist.
*HISTORY*

The wide and diverse range of subjects make this book a fascinating read.
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