Residential Buildings, Domestic Buildings

It was not until after the Norman Conquest that British castles, as we think of them today, came into being. Before this point, the only fortificat...

This volume brings together eight essays that address the result of a research project involving a group of international scholars. It explores a l...

During the Middle Ages, castles and other fortified buildings were a common feature of the European landscape. As central powers rose and fell, ...

Twenty-one houses in and around Marfa, Texas, provide a glimpse at creative life and design in one of the art worlds most intriguing destinations. ...

The palaces built in Rome in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are some of the most magnificent buildings in Europe - yet they remain relati...

A constant factor in human history is the need to protect oneself. Another factor is the urge to attack someone else. Until the Normans imposed the...

Highclere Castle, known as 'the real Downton Abbey' bustles with activity at the best of times, but it is never more alive than at Christmas.Christ...

This sumptuously illustrated history presents, in an updated new edition, an in-depth account of Britain's most important buildings, from castles, ...

With a foreword by Julian Fellowes, creator of Downton Abbey who concludes that: 'This is the world that Ruth Binney has brought so wonderfully to ...

In the present volume an attempt is made to trace the growth of the general principles of medieval fortification, with special reference to castles...