The Castle: A History

Cover
About the book
Title page
Copyright page
Contents
GLOSSARY
INTRODUCTION
THEMES
A NOTE ON THE TEXTS
THE WORD ‘CASTLE’
655 BAMBURGH Anglo-Saxon Fortifications
1066 PEVENSEY AND HASTINGS The Norman Landing
1066 HASTINGS CASTLE A Campaign Castle
1068 YORK, WARWICK AND NOTTINGHAM CASTLES The Subjugation of England
1081 TOWER OF LONDON Building in Stone
1086 RICHMOND CASTLE Interpreting Domesday
1095 BAMBURGH AND TYNEMOUTH Early Baronial Castles
1137 – 53 HEREFORD CASTLE Castle Building in the Anarchy
1139 ROGER OF SALISBURY Castle-Building by Royal Favour
1141 CASTLE HEDINGHAM, ESSEX The Mark of an Earl
1144 – 9 DURHAM CASTLE A Castle Described
c. 1150 THE PRINCIPLES OF CASTLE DESIGN A Sermon
1158 CARDIFF CASTLE Injustice and Hostage-Taking
1174 BROUGH AND ALNWICK CASTLES Capturing a King
1181 DOVER CASTLE A Pilgrimage Route
1190 YORK CASTLE The Massacre of the Jews
1204 DUBLIN CASTLE Mandates for a New Castle and a Royal Hall
1215 THE FALL OF ROCHESTER CASTLE The Fat of Forty Pigs
1241 TOWER OF LONDON Fighting Royal Tyranny
1265 DOVER CASTLE The Barons’ War
1277 CASTLE BUILDING Pressing Labour for the King
1288 MONTGOMERY CASTLE Trying on a New Cloak
1290 WINCHESTER CASTLE The Great Hall and King Arthur’s Round Table
1296 BEAUMARIS CASTLE A Progress Report
c. 1300 SEAL OF ROCHESTER The Image of the Castle
1300 CAERLAVEROCK CASTLE Edward I’s Subjection of Scotland
1303 CONWY CASTLE A Miracle in a Moat
c. 1320 THE CASTLE OF LOVE Court Entertainment
1323 TOWER OF LONDON St Peter in Chains
1330 NOTTINGHAM CASTLE A Palace Coup
1342 BERKELEY CASTLE The Noble Life
1344 WINDSOR CASTLE Arthur’s Round Table and the Order of the Garter
1348 STAFFORD CASTLE A Castle-Building Contract
AFTER 1360 A PAPER CASTLE Sir Gawain Seeks Hospitality
1375 BISHOP WYVILLE Symbols of Lordship
1381 TOWER OF LONDON Kissing a Queen and Beheading an Archbishop
1386 SANDWICH The Capture of a Timber Castle
1399 FLINT CASTLE The Capture of Richard II
1401 CONWY CASTLE Recapturing a Royal Castle
1403 ALNWICK AND WARKWORTH CASTLES The Pretence of Loyalty
1414 KENILWORTH CASTLE A Retreat from Formality
1439 TATTERSHALL CASTLE Building in Brick
c. 1450 RICHMOND CASTLE Castleguard
1462 ALNWICK, BAMBURGH AND DUNSTANBURGH CASTLES A Northern Campaign
1474 A LICENCE TO CRENELLATE AND IMPARK William, Lord Hastings
1485 WARWICK CASTLE Castles, Lineage and History
1494 DURHAM CASTLE A Prince Bishop’s Palace
1506 CAREW CASTLE Garter Day with St David and St George
1520 DOVER CASTLE A Diplomatic Encounter
1521 THORNBURY CASTLE A Ducal Seat
1522 and 1536 FARLEIGH HUNGERFORD CASTLE Murder and Poison
1539 DEAL CASTLE Resisting Invasion
1540 BELVOIR CASTLE A Castle Restored
1545 WRESSLE CASTLE A Study in Paradise
1553 FRAMLINGHAM CASTLE Securing the Succession
1554 COOLING CASTLE The Spanish Marriage
1559 TOWER OF LONDON The Knights of the Bath
1562 PONTEFRACT CASTLE Royal Heritage
1575 KENILWORTH CASTLE A Royal Visit
1588 THE HOUSE OF WOLLATON A Biblical Device
1598 TOWER OF LONDON A Foreign Tourist
1618 BERKELE Y CASTLE A Tale of a Toad
1622 NAWORTH CASTLE Cannibalising a Castle
1634 LUDLOW CASTLE An Exhortation to Virtue
1635 WINCHESTER CASTLE The Ceremony of the Court of Eyre
1645 SCARBOROUGH CASTLE The Fall of the Keep
1648 – 9 KENILWORTH CASTLE Vanishing Monuments
1649 SKIPTON, APPLEBY, BROUGH AND BROUGHAM CASTLES A Patrimony Restored
1665 ROCHESTER CASTLE Exploring a Ruin
1667 CAPHEATON Replacing Castles
1670 WINDSOR CASTLE Armour as Architecture
1678 DOUBTING CASTLE The Capture and Escape of Christian and Hopeful
1683 WINDSOR CASTLE A Baroque Stronghold and Palace
1697 WARWICK CASTLE All Mere Fiction
1715 BLENHEIM CASTLE A Grateful Nation’s Gift
1726 NEWARK CASTLE The Jaws of Time
1730 STAINBOROUGH AND WENTWORTH CASTLES The Monument to Ancestry
1745 CARLISLE CASTLE A Jacobite Defence
1764 THE CASTLE OF OTRANTO The Gothic Novel
1770 ALNWICK CASTLE A Royal Entertainment
1777 PEVENSEY, HASTINGS AND BODIAM CASTLES A Sussex Tour
1782 DINEFWR CASTLE The Castle as a Picture
1790s LUDLOW, ARUNDEL, HEDINGHAM AND SUDELEY CASTLES The Monograph
1801 BELVOIR CASTLE Romanticising History
1806 LOWTHER CASTLE Industrial Wealth
1809 HAWARDEN CASTLE The Character of a Castle
1819 CONISBROUGH CASTLE Walter Scott’s Castles
1819 GWRYCH CASTLE A Nationalist Castle
1824 WINDSOR CASTLE Imperial Splendour
1831 CROTCHET CASTLE The Pursuit of Gentility
1839 EGLINTON CASTLE Chivalry Revived
1841 MODERN CASTLES An Offence to True Principles
1844 PECKFORTON CASTLE Back to the Future
1854 CHIRK CASTLE A Housekeeper’s Tour
1857 SPECIMENS OF ANCIENT ART Restoration and Preservation
1874 CARDIFF AND COCH CASTLES Medievalism and Scholarship
1899 KENILWORTH CASTLE Mass Tourism
1911 TATTERSHALL CASTLE Saving Britain’s Heritage
1921 FARLEIGH HUNGERFORD State Restoration
1923 BLANDINGS CASTLE The Castle as Idyll
1925 ST DONAT’S CASTLE Purchasing History
1930 CASTLE DROGO, DEVON A New Ancestral Seat
1940 WORLD WAR II An Explosive Miscalculation
1949 GODSEND AND COURANTSDAIR CASTLES Decay, Neglect and Obscurity
1969 CAERNARFON CASTLE The Investiture of the Prince of Wales
1997 WINDSOR CASTLE The Rebuilding of St George’s Hall
1997 HOGWARTS CASTLE The Modern Gothic Castle
2009 DOVER CASTLE Recreating the Past
2012 LANCASTER CASTLE An Empty Prison
EPILOGUE THE DISNEY CASTLE . . . AND THE FUTURE
BIBLIOGRAPHY
ILLUSTRATION CREDITS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
INDEX
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