Castles in Medieval Society
Fortresses in England, France, and Ireland in the Central Middle Ages
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 1 July 2004
- ISBN 9780199273638
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages300 pages
- Size 234x156x27 mm
- Weight 693 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
The image of a medieval castle perched on a hill is a familiar one, but do we really know what castles were for? In this challenging new book Charles Coulson overturns many of the traditional assumptions about the nature and purpose of castle-building in the middle ages. Going back to the original sources, he proposes a new and more subtle understanding of the function and symbolism of castles as well as vivid insights into the lives of the people who inhabited them.
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In this challenging new book Charles Coulson overturns many of the traditional assumptions about the nature and purpose of castle-building in the middle ages. He demolishes the traditional belief that castles were overwhelmingly military in their function, showing how this was simply one aspect of a more complicated whole. He sets out to recreate the medieval understanding of castles as symbolically fortified places of all kinds, from ancient walled post-Roman towns and prestigious religious enclaves to transitory campaign forts.
Going back to the original sources, Dr Coulson proposes a new and more subtle understanding of the function and symbolism of castles as well as vivid insights into the lives of the people who inhabited them. Fortresses were only occasionally caught up in war, but constantly were central to the ordinary life of all classes: of the nobility and gentry, of widows and heiresses, of prelates and clergy, of peasantry and townspeople alike. Castles in Medieval Society presents and explores this broad social panorama.
Much of what Coulson proposed was ground-breaking for the time, and the effect is to be seen in the work of the current generation of castle scholars ... This is a book not to be missed
Table of Contents:
Part I. Castles: Ancient, Various, and Sociable
A Fresh Look at Early Castles
Variety Violated: Some Conceptual Problems
Some Social Relations of 'Castles and Fortresses'
Part II. Castles and the Public Interest
Noble Military 'Liberties', Ethos, and Ethics
Peacekeeping at Home and Abroad
Private Property but Public Utility
Part III. Castellans, Colonization, and Rural Community
Castle-Lords, Castle-Lordships, and Noble Civilization
Colonization and Fortresses
Population and Fortresses: Protection and Perquisites
Part IV. Castles and Circumstances of Widows, Guardians, and Heiresses
Female Castellans: Prevision not Prejudice
Ladies of Fortresses and Castle-Children
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index
