WBG Academic, 2019. — 721 S. Ob mächtige freie Reichsstadt oder kleine landesherrliche Stadt – allen diesen Siedlungen gemein und geradezu konstitutiv war die Wehrhaftigkeit, die Stadtmauer. Thomas Billers Werk ist die erste systematische und zugleich umfassende Gesamtdarstellung zur mittelalterlichen Stadtbefestigung überhaupt. In einem systematischen Teil behandelt Biller...
2. durchgesehene und korrigierte Auflage. — WBG Theiss, 2019. — 175 S. Die Templer und ihre Burgen stellt dieses Buch ausführlich und realistisch vor. Ist der Templerorden bis heute Quelle der Faszination und zahlreicher Mythen, räumt Thomas Biller hier mit den phantastischen Behauptungen und Spekulationen auf. Er gibt einen detaillierten Einblick in Struktur und Geschichte des...
Black Dog & Leventhal, 2019. — 128 p. — ISBN13: 978-0762497119. On April 15, 2019, the world looked on in horror as the Notre Dame Cathedral was nearly destroyed in a devastating fire. Notre Dame de Paris: A Celebration of the Cathedral offers a fascinating look back at nearly nine centuries of this landmark building that has stood as silent witness to some of the most...
Shire, 2014. — (Shire Library, Book 718).
By the end of the medieval period, Britain’s churches already had an architectural heritage of one thousand years, much of which remains on view today. This guide by architectural historian Jon Cannon uses high-quality photographs and diagrams to help us to analyze the leading changes in style from the Anglo-Saxon period, through the...
Captivating History, 2020. — 68 p. If you want to discover the captivating history of Notre-Dame de Paris, then keep reading. It was with horror and sadness that the people of the world opened their social media or switched on their televisions on April 15th, 2019, only to see terrifying pictures of smoke and flames roaring around one of the most iconic outlines in France: that...
Il Mulino, 2016. — 138 p. Una reggia, un monumento celebrativo, un luogo di culto? L'appassionante enigma di Castel del Monte sembra fare tutt'uno con la personalità di colui che lo fece costruire, Federico II: imperatore cristiano, illuminista ante litteram, tiranno politico e legislatore egualitario, cultore delle scienze ed esoterista. Nella vicenda dell'Italia meridionale e...
Oxbow Books, 2015. — 352 p. The Hundred Years’ War between England and France is a story of an epic conflict between two nations whose destinies became inextricably entwined throughout the later Middle Ages. During that time the balance of architectural power moved from religious to secular domination, the Gothic form continued to grow and the palace-fortress was in the...
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, «...
New Word City, 2017. — 153 р. Today, the great cathedrals of Europe stand as beautiful, imposing monuments - the pride of parishioners and the wonder of tourists. It is difficult for us now, even with all our engineering and architectural skills, to imagine the extraordinary ways these medieval houses of worship were constructed. Midway through the twelfth century, the building...
Routledge, 2006. — 240 p. — (The British Archaeological Association Conference Transactions 29). The Association's 2004 conference focused mainly on the architecture and archaeology of the medieval diocese of Llandaff, comprising much of the historic counties of Glamorgan and Monmouthshire. Contributors consider Roman and early medieval south-east Wales, including surviving...
Boydell Press, 2023. — 278 p. — (Boydell Studies in Medieval Art and Architecture 25). This book draws on architectural and archaeological analysis to consider the form, function, use and meaning of late medieval lodging ranges. While we know a great deal about most elements of the late medieval great house, we understand very little about their lodging ranges, and even less on...
Independently Published, 2021. — 193 p. La Sicilia, protagonista nel corso dei secoli di numerose dominazioni, conserva fortezze inespugnabili, innalzate per difendere i territori e i suoi abitanti. Sono, di fatto, più di duecento i castelli medievali isolani e visitarli tutti, per come meriterebbero, sarebbe pressoché impossibile. Proviamo a ricostruirne i tratti più...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017. — 81 p. — (Shire Library). Designed both to protect the their inhabitants of the towns they towered over and cow them into submission, castles dominated the landscape of Medieval England and Wales. Though some were built before 1066, the Norman Conquest left a lasting legacy of domination in the form of fortifications ranging from small earthworks...
Pegasus Books, 2017. — 272 p. Beginning with their introduction in the eleventh century, and ending with their widespread abandonment in the seventeenth, Marc Morris explores many of the country’s most famous castles, as well as some spectacular lesser-known examples. At times this is an epic tale, driven by characters like William the Conqueror, King John and Edward I, full of...
Pennsylvania State University Press, 2015. — 324 p. Medieval Toledo is famous as a center of Arabic learning and as a home to sizable Jewish, Muslim, and Christian communities. Yet its cathedral—one of the largest, richest, and best preserved in all of Europe—is little known outside Spain. In Toledo Cathedral, Tom Nickson provides the first in-depth analysis of the cathedral’s...
Ashgate Publishing, 2000. — 348 p. These studies examine the physical remains of Frankish settlement in Palestine in the 12th and 13th centuries. In recent years the view that Frankish settlement was largely confined to the fortified urban centres and castles, with few westerners venturing into the open countryside, has come to be challenged in the light of new archaeological...
Atria Books, 2023. — 1056 р. — ISBN 978-1-9821-6908-4 Architecturally breathtaking and rich in splendid art and décor, Hampton Court Palace has been the stage of some of the most important events in British history, such as the commissioning of King James’s version of the Bible, the staging of many of Shakespeare’s plays, and Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation ball. Accessible,...
Società editrice il Mulino, 2021. — 176 p. Il romanticismo ci ha lasciato in eredità un Medioevo pieno di castelli popolati di dame e cavalieri. Ma in effetti i castelli, insieme alle chiese, sono di fatto quanto è possibile ancora oggi osservare di quei secoli remoti. Opera del maggiore specialista della storia delle fortificazioni e della guerra medievale, questa mirabile...
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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