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The art of fortification had reached a high state of development even at the dawn of history. Powerful military works, dating from the remotest periods, have been found in Asia Minor, in Greece, and in the basins of the Tigris, the Euphrates, and the Nile rivers. The medieval castle, with its strategic, crenellated ramparts and aura of legend and romance, represents perhaps the most familiar form of a long-crucial art.
This concise, scholarly volume traces the history of the castle from its ancient roots in the Levant, through Roman times and the Middle Ages, to the fanciful chateaux of the sixteenth century. Profusely illustrated with nearly 200 photographs, floor-plan diagrams, and pen-and-ink renderings, Castles explores innovations in castle design, siege operations, artillery, and other weapons, living conditions within the castle, and clearly explains intriguing features of construction: moats, baileys, keeps, donjons, barbicans, double curtains, loopholes, and many others.
In addition, noted historian and fortification expert Sidney Toy takes the reader on a detailed guided tour of over 120 of the most famous castles and fortresses of Europe and the Middle East. Explore Caernarvon Castle (associated with the Princes of Wales), Dover Castle, Arundel Castle, Hadrian's Wall, the Tower of London, the famed city of Troy, and dozens of others in vivid accounts focusing on the architecture, offensive and defensive modifications, and historical importance of each structure or site.
Castle enthusiasts, medievalists, military buffs, travelers, and anyone interested in the evolution and development of the castle will find this meticulously researched overview an informative and absorbing account.
This concise, scholarly volume traces the history of the castle from its ancient roots in the Levant, through Roman times and the Middle Ages, to the fanciful chateaux of the sixteenth century. Profusely illustrated with nearly 200 photographs, floor-plan diagrams, and pen-and-ink renderings, Castles explores innovations in castle design, siege operations, artillery, and other weapons, living conditions within the castle, and clearly explains intriguing features of construction: moats, baileys, keeps, donjons, barbicans, double curtains, loopholes, and many others.
In addition, noted historian and fortification expert Sidney Toy takes the reader on a detailed guided tour of over 120 of the most famous castles and fortresses of Europe and the Middle East. Explore Caernarvon Castle (associated with the Princes of Wales), Dover Castle, Arundel Castle, Hadrian's Wall, the Tower of London, the famed city of Troy, and dozens of others in vivid accounts focusing on the architecture, offensive and defensive modifications, and historical importance of each structure or site.
Castle enthusiasts, medievalists, military buffs, travelers, and anyone interested in the evolution and development of the castle will find this meticulously researched overview an informative and absorbing account.
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INDEX
Descriptions and principal references are placed first.
ABYDUS, 17
Acre, Siège of 147
Adulterine Castles, 57
Aeneas Tacticus, 17
Aïn Tounga, 46
Africa, North, 46
Agricola's Forts, 35–6
Aigues Mortes, Tour de Constance, 128, 94
Alexios Comnenus, 144
Alfred the Great, 51
Algeria, 46
Alnwick Castle, 204
Ambracia, 27, 28
Anadoli Hissar, 83
Anadoli Kavak, 86
Anastasius, 44, 45
Angers, Château de, 135
Anglo-Saxon MSS., 51
Antioch, Siege of, 144
Antoninus Pius, Wall of, 38
Aosta, 30
Araberg Castle, 125
Archimedes, 16, 17, 18
Arques, Château de, 73
Arundel Castle, 61, 52
Ashby-de-la-Zouche, 226
Ashur, 1
Assyria, 9
Atchana, 1
Athens, Dipylon, 11
Attila, 48
Aurelian, 33
Autun, 34
Avallon, 230
Avignon, 171, 206
BABYLON, 1, 11
Babylon of Egypt, 43
Bagai, 47
Bailey, 52, 100, 116, 135, 149
Ballistae, 143, 18
Bamborough Castle, 66, 102
Barbican, 10, 48, 103, 106, 153–55, 157, 191
Barca, 14
Barmkyn, 179, 224–5
Bartizan, 204
Bastide, 215
Bastille, 215
Bastion, 21, 164
Battering Rams, 13, 14, 142, 144, 147
Battlement...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Preface
- Illustrations
- I. The Ancient Fortresses of Babylon, Mesopotamia, Assyria, Asia Minor and Greece
- II. Fortifications of Greece and Rome, 300 B.C. to 200 B.C.
- III. Fortifications of the Levant, Rome, and Western Europe, 200 B.C. to 30 B.C.
- IV. Fortifications of the Roman Empire
- V. Byzantine Fortifications from the Fifth to the Tenth Century
- VI. Fortifications of Western Europe from the Fifth to the Eleventh Century
- VII. Rectangular Keeps or Donjons
- VIII. Byzantine and Saracen Fortifications of the Twelfth Century
- IX. Transitional Keeps of the Twelfth Century
- X. Fortifications and Buildings of the Bailey in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries
- XI. Castles from about 1190 to 1270
- XII. Siege Engines and Siege Operations of the Middle Ages
- XIII. Edwardian and Contemporary Castles
- XIV. Towns, Fortified Bridges, and Towers
- XV. Gatehouses and Defences of the Curtain during the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries
- XVI. Development of the Tower-House
- XVII. Sixteenth-Century Forts
- Index