Table of Contents

Robert Liddiard, Introduction
Charles Coulson, Fourteenth-Century Castles in Context: Apotheosis or Decline?
Nicola Coldstream, 'Architects, Advisors and Design at Edward I's Castles in Wales'
Philip Dixon and Beryl Lott, The Courtyard and the Tower: Contexts and Symbols in the Development of Late Medieval Great Houses
P. A. Faulkner, Castle Planning in the Fourteenth Century
Graham Fairclough, Meaningful Constructions: Spatial and Functional Analysis of Medieval Buildings
. Philip Dixon, Mota, Aula et Turris: the Manor-Houses of the Anglo-Scottish Border
John Goodall, Lulworth Castle, Dorset
Charles McKean, A Scottish Problem with Castles
Charles Coulson, Structural Symbolism in Medieval Castle Architecture
Charles Coulson, Specimens of Freedom to Crenellate by Licence
Charles Coulson, Some Analysis of the Castle of Bodiam, East Sussex
Michael Prestwich, English Castles in the Reign of Edward II
T. E. McNeill, Castles of Ward and the Changing Pattern of Border Conflict in Ireland
Philip Dixon, The Donjon of Knaresborough: the Castle as Theatre
Richard K. Morris, The Architecture of Arthurian Enthusiasm: Castle Symbolism in the Reigns of Edward I and his Successors
Christopher Taylor, Medieval Ornamental Landscapes
Muriel A. Whitaker, Otherworld Castles in Middle English Arthurian Romance
Glossary
Guide to Further Reading

Reviews

A weighty and impressive collection. as a shop window for the vitality of castle studies, this volume will be particularly useful for scholars [and] will prove hugely valuable to researchers and students.
*HISTORY*

Within its covers, readers will discover a range of truly excellent papers that might collectively serve as a primer for English castle studies.
*SPECULUM*

Professor Liddiard has done a splendid job in bringing these chapters together in one place, as a hugely valuable resource for students and professionals alike.
*ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW*

Makes a considerable and much-needed contribution [and offers a] comprehensive analysis.
*MEDIEVAL ARCHAEOLOGY*

A very important addition to the literature of castle studies...strongly recommended to serious students of medieval castle studies.
*CASEMATE*