Crusader Castles

T.E. Lawrence

ISBN 10: 0907151671 / ISBN 13: 9780907151678

Edité par Immel Publishing, London, 1992

A propos de cet article

Immel Pub, London, 1992. Pictorial soft cover. Book Condition : Very good, very clean unmarked text. Appears little read. Covers protected with clear plastic. Superb illustrations and Photographs. Scarce book . Book will be sent by UK postal service. Inventory #BL015659.

N° de réf. du vendeur 015659

Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Crusader Castles
• Éditeur: Immel Publishing, London
• Date de parution: 1992
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0907151671
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780907151678
• Reliure: Soft cover
• Édition: 2ème Édition
• État de l'article: Very Good
• État de la jaquette: No Jacket
• Poids: 630 grammes

A propos de ce titre

Présentation de l'éditeur

A new edition of the classic text on Crusader castles and their relation to the military architecture of the West, written by T. E. Lawrence (of Arabia) while still an undergraduate at Oxford in 1910. At the end of the nineteenth century, it was generally assumed that these castles were the prototype for the massive buildings erected in Northern France and England in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Lawrence opposed this view: unlike most earlier writers on the subject, he was already familiar with castles in England, Wales, France and Syria as a result of a series of expeditions made on bicycle or foot, culminating in 1909 in a three-and-a-half month walking tour of the Levant. Although his thesis was to guarantee him a first-class degree in Modern History, its impact on scholarship was slower to take effect. The typescript remained virtually unknown until 1936, a year after the author's death, when it appeared in a limited edition of the Golden Cockerel Press. Crusader Castles is now offered to a wider readership. The original text is reproduced without alteration; but a selection of the pencilled notes which Lawrence added to the typescript, in preparation for a revision that was never made, are included as footnotes, together with additional editorial notes and bibliographical details. Lawrence's work is also assessed in the light of seventy-five years of subsequent research, in an introduction prepared by Denys Pringle.