The castle A history
Book - 2022
The castle has long had a pivotal place in English life, associated with lordship, landholding, and military might, and today it remains a powerful symbol of history. But castles have never been merely impressive fortresses - they were hubs of life, activity, and imagination. John Goodall weaves together the history of the English castle across the span of a millennium, from the eleventh to the twenty-first century, through the voices of those who witnessed it. Drawing on chronicles, poems, letters, and novels, including the work of figures like Gawain Poet, Walter Scott, Evelyn Waugh, and P. G. Wodehouse, Goodall explores the importance of the castle in our culture and society. From the medieval period to Civil War engagements, right up to... modern manifestations in Harry Potter, Goodall reveals that the castle has always been put to different uses, and to this day continues to serve as a source of inspiration.
- Subjects
- Published
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New Haven :
Yale University Press
[2022]
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Physical Description
- viii, 392 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles ; 23 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 354-376) and index.
- ISBN
- 9780300251906
- Glossary
- Introduction
- Themes
- A Note on the Texts
- The Word 'Castle'
- Before 1200
- 655 Bamburgh
- 1066 Pevensey and Hastings
- 1066 Hastings Castle
- 1068 York, Warwick and Nottingham Castles
- 1081 Tower of London
- 1086 Richmond Castle
- 1095 Bamburgh and Tynemouth
- 1137-53 Hereford Castle
- 1139 Roger of Salisbury
- 1141 Castle Hedingham, Essex
- 1144-9 Durham Castle
- c. 1150 The Principles of Castle Design
- 1158 Cardiff Castle
- 1174 Brough and Alnwick Castles
- 1181 Dover Castle
- 1190 York Castle
- 1200-1400
- 1204 Dublin Castle
- 1215 The Fall of Rochester Castle
- 1241 Tower of London
- 1265 Dover Castle
- 1277 Castle Building
- 1288 Montgomery Castle
- 1290 Winchester Castle
- 1296 Beaumaris Castle
- c. 1300 Seal of Rochester
- 1300 Caerlaverock Castle
- 1303 Conwy Castle
- c. 1320 The Castle of Love 1323 Tower of London
- 1330 Nottingham Castle
- 1342 Berkeley Castle
- 1344 Windsor Castle
- 1348 Stafford Castle
- After 1360 A Paper Castle
- 1375 The Tomb of Bishop Wyville of Salisbury
- 1381 Tower of London
- 1386 Sandwich
- 1399 Flint Castle
- 1400-1600
- 1401 Conwy Castle
- 1403 Alnwick and Warkworth Castles
- 1414 Kenilworth Castle
- 1439 TattershaU Castle
- c. 1450 Richmond Castle
- 1462 Alnwick, Bamburgh and Dunstanburgh Castles
- 1474 A Licence to Crenellate and Impark
- 1485 Warwick Castle
- 1494 Durham Castle
- 1506 Carew Castle
- 1520 Dover Castle
- 1521 Thornbury Castle
- 1522 and 1536 Farleigh Hungerford Castle
- 1539 Deal Castle
- 1540 Belvoir Castle
- 1545 Wressle Castle
- 1553 Framlingham Castle
- 1554 Cooling Castle
- 1559 Tower of London
- 1562 Pontefract Castle
- 1575 Kenilworth Castle
- 1588 The House of Wollaton
- 1598 Tower of London
- 1600-1800
- 1618 Berkeley Castle
- 1622 Naworth Castle
- 1634 Ludlow Castle
- 1635 Winchester Castle
- 1645 Scarborough Castle
- 1648-9 Kenilworth Castle
- 1649 Skipton, Appleby, Brough and Brougham Castles
- 1665 Rochester Castle
- 1667 Capheaton
- 1670 Windsor Castle
- 1678 Doubting Castle
- 1683 Windsor Castle
- 1697 Warwick Castle
- 1715 Blenheim Castle
- 1726 Newark Castle
- 1730 Stainhorough and Wentworth Castles
- 1745 Carlisle Castle
- 1764 The Castle of Otranto
- 1770 Alnwick Castle
- 1777 Pevensey, Hastings and Bodiam Castles
- 1782 Dinefwr Castle
- 1790s Ludlow, Arundel, Hedingham and Sudeley Castles
- After 1800
- 1801 Belvoir Castle
- 1806 Lowther Castle
- 1809 Hawarden Castle
- 1819 Conisbrough Castle
- 1819 Gwrych Castle
- 1824 Windsor Castle
- 1831 Crotchet Castle
- 1839 Eglinton Castle
- 1841 Modern Castles
- 1844 Peckforton Castle
- 1854 Chirk Castle
- 1857 Specimens of Ancient Art
- 1874 Cardiff and Coch Castles
- 1899 Kenilworth Castle
- 1911 Tattershall Castle
- 1921 Farleigh Hungerford
- 1923 Blandings Castle
- 1925 St Donat's Castle
- 1930 Castle Drogo, Devon
- 1940 World War II
- 1949 Godsend and Courantsdair Castles
- 1969 Caernarfon Castle
- 1997 Windsot Castle
- 1997 Hogwarts Castle
- 2009 Dover Castle
- 2012 Lancaster Castle
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Illustration Credits
- Acknowledgements
- Index