Castles of Conquest or Factionalism and the Creation of Political Landscapes

Author(s): Scott Stull

Year: 2019

Summary

This is an abstract from the "The State of the Art in Medieval European Archaeology: New Discoveries, Future Directions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Castles play a significant role in the creation of a social and political landscape. The placement and proximity of castles to each other and to other places in the landscape can be markedly different depending on the political circumstances of their creation. The castles of Germany’s Altmühltal will be compared to Trim Castle and similar castles of the Anglo-Norman world to reveal the different political worlds of conquest and factionalism.

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Castles of Conquest or Factionalism and the Creation of Political Landscapes. Scott Stull. Presented at The 84th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Albuquerque, NM. 2019 ( tDAR id: 451284)

Keywords

Geographic Keywords
Europe

Spatial Coverage

min long: -11.074; min lat: 37.44 ; max long: 50.098; max lat: 70.845 ;

Record Identifiers

Abstract Id(s): 23922