How to read castles : a crash course in understanding fortifications
Hislop, Malcolm2018
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'How to Read Castles' is a travel-sized primer that takes a strictly visual approach to castle architecture, building up the reader's vocabulary of castle types, styles, and materials, and showing how these aspects can be recognised across architectural features from the floor-plan and moat, to the towers and crenulations. Focusing on the period from the 10th to the 16th century, and crusading across the globe from a Welsh motte-and-bailey to a Japanese hirajiro, this is both architectural reference and visitor guide - showing the reader how to read the stories embedded in every castle's stones.
Main title:
How to read castles : a crash course in understanding fortifications / Malcolm Hislop.
Author:
Hislop, Malcolm, author
Imprint:
London : Herbert Press, 2018.
Collation:
256 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 17 cm
Notes:
Originally published: London: Bloomsbury, 2013.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781912217687 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
728.81
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
1130076