Description and condition:

Laminated pictorial hardback, matching dustcover, 8vo, 210pp, index, notes and references, b/w illustrations.

Very good or better with nice bright clean pages throughout. In very good dustcover.

Contents:

This is a work that will be essential reading for students of and enthusiasts for the period, both in its imaginative, closely observed descriptions of individual castles and their development, and in the general conclusions that this evidence provokes. In terms that will enlighten both laymen and specialists, Professor Platt not only explains all the several and varied uses of the castle - stronghold, palace, treasury, administrative centre, prison, or source of chivalric display - but sets them against the political, social, and economic realities of medieval times.