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Hislop, Malcolm

 
9781912217687: How to Read Castles: A Crash Course in Understanding Fortifications
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ISBN 10: 1912217686 ISBN 13: 9781912217687
Editorial: Herbert Press, 2018

Sinopsis

The essential companion to discover the styles, architecture, form, significance and historical impact of castles from all over the world.

How to Read Castles is a travel-size primer that takes a strictly visual approach to castle architecture, building up your vocabulary of castle types, styles and materials, and showing you how these aspects can be recognised across architectural features from the floor-plan and moat, to the towers and crenulations.

Focusing on the 10th-16th century period, and crusading across the globe from a Welsh motte-and-bailey to a Japanese hirajiro, this is both an architectural reference and a visitor's guide showing you how to read the stories embedded in every castle's stones.

Castles once dominated the landscape as seats of power and symbols of wealth and status, providing a means of control over borders, passes, routes and rivers. Armed with this book you will be able to unpick their histories and see how they shaped the land around them. From rugged coastline defences to soaring mountain fortresses, this book takes you on an international journey of discovery, exploring some of the most inspiring and impressive architecture history has ever seen.

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Acerca del autor

Malcolm Hislop is a history and archaeology graduate from the University of Nottingham with over 30 years' experience in the investigation and interpretation of historic buildings. He now works as an independent archaeological consultant and has written extensively on the subject of medieval buildings, including Medieval Masons and John Lewyn of Durham: A Medieval Mason in Practice.

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Editorial
Herbert Press
Año de publicación
2018
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1912217686
ISBN 13 
9781912217687
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Número de páginas
256
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