Castles in Medieval Society : Fortresses in England, France, and Ireland in the Central Middle Ages ;
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 their inhabita...
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2003
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