Lincoln Castle Revealed

The Story of a Norman Powerhouse and its Anglo-Saxon Precursor

Jonathan Clark, Justin Garner-Lahire, Cecily Spall, Nicola Toop (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

256 Seiten

2021
Oxbow Books (Verlag)
978-1-78925-735-9 (ISBN)

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Accessible, lavishly illustrated history of Lincoln Castle, from the Roman period through to the 20th century incorporating the results of numerous archaeological excavations.

This highly-illustrated book reveals a brand-new story of the royal castle of Lincoln – how it was imposed on the late Anglo-Saxon town and how it developed over the next 900 years in the hands of the king or his aristocratic associates. Today, we have been left a surviving monument of three great towers, each with its own biography.

Led by FAS Heritage, archaeologists, architectural historians and a large cohort of the general public have come together to produce a revealing and accessible account of the story of Lincoln Castle; in doing so, we gain further insight into the history, culture and society of medieval England.

Jonathan Clark is a buildings archaeologist and architectural historian who has spent much of his career researching, recording and analysing medieval castles, houses and monasteries across the British Isles. He has been researching Lincoln Castle for over 20 years and is Lincoln Cathedral Archaeologist. Justin Garner-Lahire is the managing director at FAS Heritage, an archaeological research practice founded in 1993. He has excavated extensively on medieval sites in England and Scotland, having led major excavations at Castle Sinclair Girnigoe, Lincoln Castle and Somerton Castle. Cecily Spall is a senior archaeological researcher in FAS Heritage who has excavated, studied and published numerous medieval stratified sequences in Britain, famously at Portmahomack, Easter Ross where she was the leading co-director. Nicola Toop studied the early medieval Irish Sea region for her PhD and is a long-term researcher at FAS Heritage involved in archaeological and documentary research at castles and monasteries, such as Lincoln Castle and Bolton Abbey.

List of illustrations

List of tables

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgements

Picture credits

1. The campaign to reveal Lincoln Castle

2. The Roman fortress and colonia

3. The city beneath the castle

4. The early castle and the Lucy Tower

5. The castle gates and walls

6. The Observatory Tower

7. Cobb Hall and the last flowering of the medieval castle

8. Lincoln Castle recreated

9. Legacy

Digest of evidence

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	18.08.2021
Zusatzinfo	Colour
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	240 x 280 mm
Themenwelt	Reisen ► Reiseführer
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10	1-78925-735-2 / 1789257352
ISBN-13	978-1-78925-735-9 / 9781789257359
Zustand	Neuware