Medieval Castles, Stately and Historic Houses of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
From Ancient Times to the Wars of the Roses and 1485
Author: Charles Phillips
This lavish visual history traces and records the development of Britain's finest secular buildings in the years up to 1486. It describes and explains the changes in method and style from the ancient earthworks and Roman forts to the splendors of castle building.
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This lavish visual history traces and records the development of Britain's finest secular buildings in the years up to 1486. It describes and explains the changes in method and style from the ancient earthworks and Roman forts to the splendors of castle building.
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This lavish visual history traces and records the development of Britain's finest secular buildings in the years up to 1486. It describes and explains the changes in method and style from the ancient earthworks and Roman forts to the splendors of castle building.
About the Author
Charles Phillips is an established writer of popular history, a graduate of Oxford University and holds an MA from the University of Westminster, London. He is the author of The Complete Illustrated Guide to Kings and Queens of Britain and Ireland, and The Complete Illustrated Guide to Castles, Palaces and Stately Houses of Britain and Ireland (both also published by Lorenz Books). He was a contributor to Cassell's Dictionary of Modern Britain and Ancient Civilizations, and was a key writer of Time Life's Myth and Mankind series as well as illustrated histories published by Dorling Kindersley,
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