Bloomsbury, 2012 — 230 p. — ISBN 9781408171776, 1408171775. Overview Gothic cathedrals are astonishing feats of construction and engineering, from a period before steel frames and machine tools, breathtaking in their scale and grandeur even hundreds of years after these historic symbols of the Christian faith were built. Focusing on the golden age of cathedral construction, «...
Oxbow Books, 2010. — 113 р. Westminster Abbey is one of the most important and well-known medieval buildings in Europe but, despite being studied by generations of scholars, there is still much to learn about its history and architecture. The lantern over the centre of the church is a case in point. Edward the Confessor built a great tower here, which is depicted on the Bayeux...
Oxford University Press, 1912. — 380 p. In the late 12th and early 13th centuries, a scientific approach to castle defence emerged. This led to the proliferation of towers, with an emphasis on flanking fire. Many new castles were polygonal or relied on concentric defence – several stages of defence within each other that could all function at the same time to maximise the...
М.: Центрполиграф, 2011. — 449 с. — ISBN: 978-5-9524-4980-0. На основе оригинальных документальных источников А.Гамильтон Томпсон анализирует развитие общих принципов фортификационного зодчества Британии в Средние века. Рассматривая эволюцию искусства фортификации, автор подробно описывает оборонительные сооружения Британии на разных этапах истории: ранние земляные и деревянные...
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