The Archaeology of Weapons : Arms and Armour from Prehistory to
the Age of Chivalry
by R. Ewart Oakeshott
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Ancient Engineers
De Camp, L. Sprague
Paperback Reissue edition (December 1988)
Ballantine Books; ISBN: 0345320298
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Conant, Kenneth John
Listed under History of Architecture
Chateaux
of the Loire
by Thorston Droste
Architecture, interiors, and gardens of the Loire chateaux
Hardcover: 208 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.99 x
12.05 x 9.66
Publisher: St. Martin's Press (Short); (October 1997)
ISBN: 1860641644
Castel
Del Monte: Geometric Marvel of the Middle Ages
by Heinz Gotze
Amazon.com You don't have to be an architectural historian to reap
the multifarious rewards of this gorgeous volume. There may be one square
root too many for the math-challenged multitudes, but otherwise this book's
brilliant, clearly written text should appeal to classicists, abstract
art admirers, and lovers of historical mysteries--hark, fans of The Name
of the Rose--to suggest just a few of many possible audiences.
Already in its third printing in Germany, the lushly illustrated book
offers Heinz Götze's reasoned arguments tying the design of the Castel
Del Monte, the mysterious, singular, southern Italian fortress built under
the revered leader Frederick II, to the Mediterranean culture of the Middle
Ages and to the intricacies of Arab geometry circulating in North Africa
at the time. Götze is steeped in his subject: he has led architectural
digs at other sites to search for European antecedents for this extraordinary
eight-sided star of an edifice (there are none), and he draws on a seemingly
vast knowledge of the delicate geometries of celestial and terrestrial
designs of the period that stretch from France to Syria. His impeccable
scholarship seems to liberate him from the pedestrian prose of many such
books (there are cheerily triumphal exclamation points scattered throughout
this one).
While the book is extremely learned and contains much material that
is over the head of the ordinary reader, Götze manages to urge readers
to stretch their intellects. The hardest part, ultimately, is sitting in
an armchair to read this book, rather than standing at the Castel Del Monte
in person and gazing at it with newfound understanding. --Peggy Moorman
- Amazon.com
(Hardcover -- April 1998)
Castles
: Their Construction and History
by Sidney Toy
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Dover Pubns; ISBN: 0486248984; (September 1985)
Castles
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by Robin S. Oggins
Hardcover - 120 pages (October 1995)
Metro Books; ISBN: 1567990959
Castles
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Central Middle Ages
by Charles Coulson
Hardcover from Oxford Press
Book Published: April, 2003
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by David MacAulay
Reading level: Ages 9-12
Paperback (October 25, 1982)
Scott Foresman (Pearson K-12); ISBN: 0395329205
Castle
Macaulay, David
Reading level: Ages 9-12
Hardcover - 74 pages (September 28, 1977)
Houghton Mifflin Co (Juv); ISBN: 0395257840
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