Audiobook9 hours
Castles: Their History and Evolution in Medieval Britain
Written by Marc Morris
Narrated by Derek Perkins
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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About this audiobook
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 sieges and conquest on an awesome scale. But it is also by turns an intimate story of less eminent individuals, whose adventures, struggles, and ambitions were reflected in the fortified residences they constructed. Be it ever so grand or ever so humble, a castle was first and foremost a home.
To understand castles-who built them, who lived in them, and why-is to understand the forces that shaped medieval Britain.
At times this is an epic tale, driven by characters like William the Conqueror, King John, and Edward I, full of sieges and conquest on an awesome scale. But it is also by turns an intimate story of less eminent individuals, whose adventures, struggles, and ambitions were reflected in the fortified residences they constructed. Be it ever so grand or ever so humble, a castle was first and foremost a home.
To understand castles-who built them, who lived in them, and why-is to understand the forces that shaped medieval Britain.
Author
Marc Morris
Marc Morris is a historian specializing in the Middle Ages. He is the author of A Great and Terrible King; King John; and the Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestselling The Norman Conquest. Marc lives in England.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Absolutely suberb. A history of the British castle from the motte and baillie of Norman times, thru to the fantasy homes of middle ages ladder climbing upstarts, up until the aftermath of the Englush Civil Wars which saw do may destroyef. Morris is a great historian, his love of the subject and his knowledge just seeps through.
Great narration.