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Castles exert a powerful influence on our imagination. The walls which echo our footsteps once echoed to long-past laughter, revelry, the ring of the armourer’s anvil, the clatter of horses’ hooves. Above all we want to know the detail of life then. How was the household organised and run from day to day? Where were clothes washed? What did lord and servant eat? Where did they sleep? How and why were castles built? John Burke skillfully reconstitutes this fascinating picture of basic amenities, discomfort (Henry III insisted that the constable of the Tower of London have another privy put in ‘even though it should cost a hundred pounds’), pageantry, warfare, and administration of an often brutal feudal system. Binding the detail into a broader scheme, John Burke enables the reader to see the castle in the context of medieval society (the role it played in the countryside, its political and military importance, the sort of life-it sustained) and to get a clear picture of castle development from early motte and bailey forts through the great Norman and high Medieval period to the castle’s transformation into the manor house. The text is lavishly illustrated with over 100 photographs and contemporary illustrations.
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Castles, History, Social history, Social life and customs, Burg, Schloss, Adel, Manners and customs, Kultur, England, social life and customsPlaces
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1066-1485, Medieval, 500-1500, To 1500Showing 4 featured editions. View all 4 editions?
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Life in the castle in medieval England
1983, British Heritage Press, Distributed by Crown Publishers
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Life in the castle in medieval England
1983, British Heritage Press, Distributed by Crown Publishers
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Life in the castle in medieval England
1978, Rowman and Littlefield
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0847660699 9780847660698
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Bibliography: p. 118.
Includes index.
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