Young readers can explore a castle's features, architectural details, and hidden rooms through this comprehensive guide to the structure and the people that lived in it that includes a layered 3-D model.
Medieval history comes alive in Frances and Joseph Gies’s Life in a Medieval City, used as a research resource by George R. R. Martin in creating the world of A Game of Thrones.
This fascinating look at a medieval castle includes a die-cut model that reveals the ins and outs of defense, offense, and daily life, layer by layer!
Illustrations depicting everyday life in the Middle Ages are accompanied by brief text.
This fascinating book explores the life and thought of the Middle Ages with particular emphasis on the influence of the castle, a military society with all its faults and virtues.
Focusing on Chepstow, an English castle that survived the turbulent Middle Ages with a relative lack of violence, the book offers an exquisite portrait of what day-to-day life was actually like during the era, and of the key role the castle ...
Describes and illustrates the various parts of a medieval castle, including the people who lived and worked in them, how they were defended, knighthood, and daily life.
This collection of 30 detailed illustrations focuses on activities within the castle and how the heavily fortified structure functioned.
A collection of the most significant articles in castle studies, with contributions from scholars in history, archaeology, historic buildings and landscape archaeology.
As the son of a medieval lord, Henry has lived in a castle all his life.
This original and pioneering book examines the role of the castle in the Norman conquest of England and in the subsequent administration of the country.