About the Author

Robert Liddiard is Professor of History at the University of East Anglia. His teaching and research interests are in medieval and landscape history, particularly the history and archaeology of high status landscapes (secular and ecclesiastical), the vernacular landscape, parks and hunting as well as aspects of tenurial geography.

Reviews

There has been a strong demand for books in English on castles over the last fifteen years...Liddiards book is based firmly on the revision of traditional views.
*Speculum - A Journal of Medieval Studies*

It is a superb book that everyone interested in medieval archaeology should read, because it describes why castles where built and how they were used by people living in the area. It blows away the cobwebs that still surround medieval siege warfare. It’s a book about the uses of power and how a large and spectacular building can attract attention over the centuries, simply by its presence.
*Britain in the Middle Ages: An Archaeological History*