List of works - Michael W. Thompson

A Manual of Monumental Brasses. By Herbert Haines, with an Introduction, Biographical Note and Bibliography by Richard J. Busby. 15 x 24 cm. cclxiii-286 pp., 200 illustrations, 1 plate ⬇️

book review published in 1971

A. L. Mongait: Arkheologiya Zapadnoi Evropy, Kammenyi Vek (The archaeology of Western Europe: the Stone Age). Moscow: Izdatel'stvo ‘Nauka’,* 1973. 355 pp., 13 pls. (5 in colour), numerous figs., 3 maps. Roubles 2.88

An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Cambridge, 1, West Cambridgeshire. By the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments. 8½ x 10¾ in. lxix + 256 pp. 144 pl. (some in colour), many line drawings (not numbered), map in pocket ⬇️

book review published in 1969

An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Cambridge, II, North-East Cambridgeshire. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England). 27 x 21 cm. Ixvi+163 pp., 120 pls. and coloured frontispiece, 126 figs., map in pocket ⬇️

book review published in 1973

An Inventory of the Ancient Monuments in Glamorgan. Vol. I, Pre-Norman. 11 × 8½. Pt. I: The Stone and Bronze Ages. Pp. xxx + 144 + 10 pls. + 36 figs.; Pt. II: The Iron Age and the Roman Occupation. Pp. xxx + 135 + 15 pls. + 39 figs.; Pt. III: The E

Ancient Europe from the Beginnings of Agriculture to Classical Antiquity. By Stuart Piggott. 10 × 7. Pp. xxiv + 343 + 143 figs. + 51 pls. Edinburgh: University Press, 1965. 42s.

Archaeology in the U.S.S.R. By Alexander Mongait. 10½ x 8½ in. 429 pp., 207 illustrations (including maps). Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1959. Price 45s. ⬇️

book review published in 1960

Building Accounts of King Henry III. Edited by H. M. Colvin. 22 x 14 cm. xvi+472 pp., 16 pIs. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971. Price £7.00. ⬇️

book review published in 1971

Castella Maris Baltici l. Edited by Knut Drake. 21 x 30 cm. 275 pp., many figs. and pls. Stockholm: Almqvist and Wiksell International. ISBN 91-22-01566-3. ISSN 1236-5882. Price: SEK 448 pb.

book review published in 1994

Castle

encyclopedia article

Castle Rising Castle, Norfolk: (East Anglian Archacology Report 81.) By Beric Morley and David Gurney. 21 x 30 cm., xii + 152 pp., microfiche. 103 figs., 17 pls., 34 tables. Dereham: Norfolk Museums Service, Field Archaeology Division, 1997 ⬇️

book review published in 1998

Castles from the Air. By R. Allen Brown. 22 x 28 cm. vi + 246 pp., many illustrations. Cambridge: C.U.P., 1989. Price: £17.50. ⬇️

book review published in 1990

Catalogue of correspondence and papers of Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers in the Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum

catalogue published in 1976

Chateau Gaillard, Etudes de castellogie medievale, VI (Actes du Colloque International tenu a Venlo). 27 x 20 cm, 205 pp., figs. and plates. Universite de Caen: Centre de Recherches Archeologiques Medievales, 1973. Price not stated. ⬇️

book review published in 1974

Chateau Gaillard, Etudes de castellogie medievale, VII (Actes du colloque international tenu a Blois, 2-7 Septembre, 1974). 27 x 20 cm. 224 pp., text figures. Universite de Caen: Centre de Recherches Archeologiques Medievales, 1975. Price not stated. ⬇️

book review published in 1976

Conisbrough Castle

guidebook published in 1971

Conisbrough Castle

guide book

Deserted Medieval Villages. Studies. Edited by Maurice Beresford and John G. Hurst. 25 x 19 cm. xviii+340 pp., 31 pls., 42 figs., 16 tables. London: Lutterworth Press, 1971. Price £8.00. ⬇️

book review published in 1971

Drevnii Kiev. Ocherki po Istorii Materialnoi Kultury Drevnerusskogo Goroda [Ancient Kiev. An Outline History of the Material Culture of the Medieval Russian Town]. By M. K. Karger. 2 vols. 8 x 10½ in. ⬇️

book review published in 1966

Early Maps of the British Isles A.D. 1000-A.D. 1579. (Royal Geographical Society Reproductions of Early Maps, VII). Introduction and Notes by G. R. Crone. Portfolio, 20½ x 16½ in. 20 pls., and introductory booklet, 123 x 10 in. 32 pp ⬇️

book review published in 1963

General Pitt-Rivers: evolution and archaeology in the nineteenth century

book published in 1977

Glamorgan County History. Vol. II. Early Glamorgan, Prehistory and Early History. Editedby H. N. Savory. 30 × 21 cm. Pp. xx + 506, 58 figs. + 23 pls. Cardiff: Glamorgan County History Trust, 1984. ISBN 0-904730-04-2. £39.95

article by Michael Thompson published March 1986 in Antiquaries Journal

Greater Medieval Houses of England and Wales, 1300–1300. Vol. 1, Northern England. By Anthony Emery. 290mm. Pp. xii + 435, ills. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. ISBN 0-521-49723-X. £80.00

article

Handbuch der Urgeschichte, I, Ältere und Mittlere Steinzeit, Jäger- und Sammlerkulturen. Edited by Karl J. Narr. 9¼ × 6. Pp. 516 + 22 pls. + 101 figs. Berne: Francke Verlag, 1966. 78 DM

Historic Towns: Maps and Plans of Towns and Cities in the British Isles, with Historical Commentaries, from earliest Times to 1800, vol. 1. Edited by M. D. Lobel. 16¼ x 12¼ in. 78 pp., 55 maps. Oxford: Lovell Johns, 1969. Price £5 5s. ⬇️

book review published in 1969

Kenilworth Castle

guidebook published in 1980

Kenilworth Castle, Warwickshire ⬇️

guidebook published in 1977

Kenilworth Castle, Warwickshire

guidebook published in 1991

Konigshagen, ein archaologisch-historischer Beitrag zur Siedlungsgeschichte des sudwestlichen. Harzvorlandes. By Walter Janssen. 6¼ x 9½ in. viii + 246 pp., 21 figs., 20 plans and maps in separate folder ⬇️

book review published in 1966

Land and Work in Medieval Europe. Selected Papers by Marc Bloch, translated by J. E. Anderson. 8½ x 5½ in. xii + 260 pp. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1966. Price 30s. ⬇️

book review published in 1967

Lincolnshire Architectural and Archaeological Society, Reports and Papers, n.s, VIII. Edited by D. M. Owen. 8½ x 5½ in. 112 pp., 10 figures, 5 plates. Lincoln: published by the Society, 1960. Price 20s.

book review published in 1961

Maps and Plans in the Public Record Office: I, British Isles, c. 1410-1860. Compiled by H. N. Blakiston. 10 x 6 in. xv+648 pp. London: H.M. Stationery Office, 1967. Price £55s ⬇️

book review published in 1968

Medieval Archaeology in England: A Guide to the Historical Sources. By Colin Platt. Pinhorn's Handbooks, no. 5. 8¼ x 5¾ in. 32 pp. Shalfleet Manor, Isle of Wight: Pinhorns, 1969. Price 12s. ⬇️

book review published in 1969

Medieval Bishops' Houses in England and Wales

book published in 1998

Medieval Fortifications. By John R. Kenyon. 250 × 180mm. Pp. xvi + 233, 83 figs., 2 tables. Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1990. ISBN 0-7185-1289-8. £35·00

Medieval Technology and Social Change. By Lynn White, Jr. 8½ x 5¾. xii + 194 pp., 10 pls. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1962. Price 32s. ⬇️

book review published in 1964

Mittelalterliche Burghugel ('Motten') im nordlichen Rheinland. (Beihefte der Bonner Jahrbucher, XVI.) By Michael Muller-Wille, 10½ x 7½ in. vii+115 pp., 6 pls., 59 figs. Cologne: Bohlau Verlag, 1966, Price 22 DM. ⬇️

book review published in 1967

N. P. Stanley Price (ed.): Conservation on archaeological excavations, with particular reference to the Mediterranean area. Rome: ICCROM, 1984, 158 pp., illustrated

Norman Castles in Britain. By Derek Renn. 10 x 6 in. xiii + 364 pp., 49 pls. (1 in colour), 76 figs., 6 maps. London and New York: John Baker and Humanities Press, 1968. Price 106s. or $17.50 ⬇️

book review published in 1968

Pickering Castle, Yorkshire

guidebook published in 1958

Prehistoric Russia, an Outline. By Tadeusz Sulimirski. 10 × 6. Pp. xxiii + 449 + 50 pls. + 91 figs. + 32 maps + 23 tables. London: John Baker, 1970. £7.35

Problerne der Kustenforschung im sudlichen Nordseegebiet, Bd. ix (Schriftenreihe der Niedersachsischen Landesinstitutes fur Marschen- und Wurtenforschung, Wilhelmshaven). Edited by Werner Haarnagel. 12¼ x 9¼ in. 112 pp., many illustrations and tables ⬇️

book review published in 1970

RCHM (England): An inventory of the historical monuments in the City of York, vol. 2: The defences. London: HMSO, 1972. 233 pp., 66 pls. (4 in colour), about 100 figs. (unnumbered), 3 pull-outs. £7.25

article

Reallexikon der Germanischen Alterstumkunde. Founded by Johannes Hoops; 2nd ed., enlarged and fully revised. Edited by H. Jankuhn, H. Kuhn, K. Ranke and R. Wenskus. Bd. I, Lieferung I. 8½ x 6¾ in. 112 pp., 3 pls., 10 figs ⬇️

book review published in 1968

Reallexikon der germanischen Altertumskunde. Founded by Johannes Hoops; 2 ed., enlarged and fully revised. Edited by H. Jankuhn, H. Kuhn, K. Ranke and R. Wenskus. Bd. I, Lieferungen 2-3. 24 x 17 cm ⬇️

book review published in 1971

Recent Archaeological Excavations in Europe. Edited by Rupert Bruce-Mitford. 10×7½. Pp. xxviii + 335 + 46 pls. + 113 figs. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1975. £12·00.

Reviews

book reviews published in Medieval Archaeology in January 1995

Reviews of Books

Rheinische Ausgrabungen, I: Beitrage zur Archaologie des Mittelalters (Beihefte der Bonner Jahrbucher, XXVIII). 10½ x 7 in. 280 pp., 97 figs., 29 plates (one in colour). Cologne: Bohlau Verlag, 1968. Price DM 78. ⬇️

book review published in 1969

Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments in Wales. An Inventory of the Ancient Monuments in Glamorgan. Vol. III. Medieval Secular Monuments. Part 2. Non-Defensive. 28.5 × 22.5 cm. Pp. xxxviii + 398, 205 figs. + 47 pls. (inc. 4 col.). Car

Ruins: Their preservation and display

book published in 1981

Rural Economy and Country Life in the Medieval West. By Georges Duby. Translated by Cynthia Postan. 9 x 6 in. xv + 600 pp., 10 pls., figures and tables. London: Edward Arnold, 1968. Price 90s. ⬇️

book review published in 1968

Short Reviews

Stammesbildung und Verfassung. Das Werden der fruhmittelalterlichen gentes. By Reinhard Wenskus. 6½ x 9½ in. x + 656 pp., 2 maps. Cologne: Bohlau Verlag, 1962. Price (linen) 58 Dm. ⬇️

book review published in 1966

Stonehenge Complete. By Christopher Chippindale. 26 × 19 cm. Pp. 296, 260 ills. (inc. 13 col.). London: Thames and Hudson, 1983. ISBN 0-500-05043-0. £12·50

book review published in 1985

Studien zu fruhgeschichtlichen Befestigungen zwischen Nordsee und Alpen. Beihefte der Bonner Jahrbucher, Band XI. By Rafael von Uslar. 10½ x 7½ in. viii + 290 pp., 96 figs., 17 pls., 1 map. Koln : Bohlau Verlag, 1964. Price (linen) 38 DM. ⬇️

book review published in 1965

The Archaeology of Malton and Norton. By J. F. Robinson. 30×21 cm. Pp. xii+46+11 pls.+6 figs. Leeds: Yorkshire Archaeological Society, 1978. £2·50

The Castle in England and Wales. An Interpretative History. By D. J. Cathcart King. 24 × 16 cm. Pp. 209, 25 figs., 9 pls. London and Sydney: Croom Helm. ISBN 0-7099-4829-8. £25·00

book review published in 1988

The Decline of the Castle ⬇️

book by M. W. Thompson published in 1987

The Decline of the Castle

1987 book

The Green Knight's Castle

chapter published in 1989

The Medieval Buildings of Stamford (Stamford Survey Group, Report I). By Alan Rogers, with introduction by W. A. Pantin. 11¼ x 8¼ in. 57 pp., 61 figs., 1 map. Nottingham: University of Nottingham, Department of Adult Education, 1970 ⬇️

book review published in 1970

The Rise of the Castle

book published in 1991

The Royal Hordes, Nomad Peoples of the Steppes. (Library of the Early Civilizations.) By E. D. Phillips. 8½ × 6 in. Pp. 144+141 illustrations (some in colour). London: Thames & Hudson, 1965. Price 30s

The Sketchbook of Villard de Honnecourt. Edited by Theodore Bowie. 7½ x 5¼ in. 144 pp., 64 pIs. Bloomington and London: Indiana University Press (American University Publishers Group, Ltd.), 1968 (?). Price 21s. ⬇️

book review published in 1968

The Slavs. By Marija Gimbutas. 8 × 6. Pp. 240 + 75 pls. + 63 figs. London: Thames & Hudson, 1971. £3.50.

The Spade in Northern and Atlantic Europe. Edited by Alan Gailey and Alexander Fenton. 9½ x 6¾ in. xiv+257 pp., 33 pls., 88 figs. Belfast: Ulster Folk Museum and Institute of Irish Studies, Queen's University, 1970. Price 33s ⬇️

book review published in 1970

The Uses of Air Photography, Nature and Man in a New Perspective. Edited by J. K. St. Joseph and published under the auspices of the Cambridge University Committee for Aerial Photography. 12¼ x 9¾ in. 166 pp., 84 pls., 5 figs ⬇️

book review published in 1967

The Viking Achievement, the Society and Culture of Early Medieval Scandinavia (Great Civilizations Series). By Peter Foote and David M. Wilson. 8½ x 9¼ in. xxv+473 pp., 29 pls., 59 figs. London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1970. Price 65s. (£3.25). ⬇️

book review published in 1970

The abandonment of the castle in Wales and the Marches

chapter published in 1987

The third Chateau-Gaillard conference at Battle, Sussex ⬇️

report published in 1967

Timber Castles. By Robert Higham and Philip Barker. 255 × 200mm. Pp. 390, 241 ills. London: Batsford, 1992. ISBN 0-7134-2189-4. £47.50

Tools and Tillage, a Journal on the History of the Implements of Cultivation and other Agricultural Processes. Edited by Axel Steensberg, Alexander Fenton and Grith Lerche. Vol. I, no. 1, 64 pp., illus. Copenhagen: G.E.C. Gad, 1968 ⬇️

book review published in 1968

Town Defences in England, an Architectural and Documentary Study, A.D. 900-1500. By Hilary L. Turner. 14X22 em. 246 pp., 40 pls., 4 line drawings. London: John Baker, 197I. Price £2 '90. ⬇️

book review published in 1971

Warfare in England 1066-1189. By John Beeler. 9½ x 6½ in. xiii+493 pp., 13 figs. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1966. Price $12.50 ⬇️

book review published in 1967

Medieval Bishops' Houses in England and Wales ⬇️

1998 hardcover edition (en)

The Rise of the Castle

2008 paperback edition (en)

The Rise of the Castle ⬇️

1991 hardcover edition (en)

List of works by Michael W. Thompson

A Manual of Monumental Brasses. By Herbert Haines, with an Introduction, Biographical Note and Bibliography by Richard J. Busby. 15 x 24 cm. cclxiii-286 pp., 200 illustrations, 1 plate ⬇️

A. L. Mongait: Arkheologiya Zapadnoi Evropy, Kammenyi Vek (The archaeology of Western Europe: the Stone Age). Moscow: Izdatel'stvo ‘Nauka’,* 1973. 355 pp., 13 pls. (5 in colour), numerous figs., 3 maps. Roubles 2.88

An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Cambridge, 1, West Cambridgeshire. By the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments. 8½ x 10¾ in. lxix + 256 pp. 144 pl. (some in colour), many line drawings (not numbered), map in pocket ⬇️

An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Cambridge, II, North-East Cambridgeshire. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England). 27 x 21 cm. Ixvi+163 pp., 120 pls. and coloured frontispiece, 126 figs., map in pocket ⬇️

An Inventory of the Ancient Monuments in Glamorgan. Vol. I, Pre-Norman. 11 × 8½. Pt. I: The Stone and Bronze Ages. Pp. xxx + 144 + 10 pls. + 36 figs.; Pt. II: The Iron Age and the Roman Occupation. Pp. xxx + 135 + 15 pls. + 39 figs.; Pt. III: The E

Ancient Europe from the Beginnings of Agriculture to Classical Antiquity. By Stuart Piggott. 10 × 7. Pp. xxiv + 343 + 143 figs. + 51 pls. Edinburgh: University Press, 1965. 42s.

Archaeology in the U.S.S.R. By Alexander Mongait. 10½ x 8½ in. 429 pp., 207 illustrations (including maps). Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1959. Price 45s. ⬇️

Building Accounts of King Henry III. Edited by H. M. Colvin. 22 x 14 cm. xvi+472 pp., 16 pIs. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971. Price £7.00. ⬇️

Castella Maris Baltici l. Edited by Knut Drake. 21 x 30 cm. 275 pp., many figs. and pls. Stockholm: Almqvist and Wiksell International. ISBN 91-22-01566-3. ISSN 1236-5882. Price: SEK 448 pb.

Castle

Castle Rising Castle, Norfolk: (East Anglian Archacology Report 81.) By Beric Morley and David Gurney. 21 x 30 cm., xii + 152 pp., microfiche. 103 figs., 17 pls., 34 tables. Dereham: Norfolk Museums Service, Field Archaeology Division, 1997 ⬇️

Castles from the Air. By R. Allen Brown. 22 x 28 cm. vi + 246 pp., many illustrations. Cambridge: C.U.P., 1989. Price: £17.50. ⬇️

Catalogue of correspondence and papers of Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers in the Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum

Chateau Gaillard, Etudes de castellogie medievale, VI (Actes du Colloque International tenu a Venlo). 27 x 20 cm, 205 pp., figs. and plates. Universite de Caen: Centre de Recherches Archeologiques Medievales, 1973. Price not stated. ⬇️

Chateau Gaillard, Etudes de castellogie medievale, VII (Actes du colloque international tenu a Blois, 2-7 Septembre, 1974). 27 x 20 cm. 224 pp., text figures. Universite de Caen: Centre de Recherches Archeologiques Medievales, 1975. Price not stated. ⬇️

Conisbrough Castle

Conisbrough Castle

Deserted Medieval Villages. Studies. Edited by Maurice Beresford and John G. Hurst. 25 x 19 cm. xviii+340 pp., 31 pls., 42 figs., 16 tables. London: Lutterworth Press, 1971. Price £8.00. ⬇️

Drevnii Kiev. Ocherki po Istorii Materialnoi Kultury Drevnerusskogo Goroda [Ancient Kiev. An Outline History of the Material Culture of the Medieval Russian Town]. By M. K. Karger. 2 vols. 8 x 10½ in. ⬇️

Early Maps of the British Isles A.D. 1000-A.D. 1579. (Royal Geographical Society Reproductions of Early Maps, VII). Introduction and Notes by G. R. Crone. Portfolio, 20½ x 16½ in. 20 pls., and introductory booklet, 123 x 10 in. 32 pp ⬇️

General Pitt-Rivers: evolution and archaeology in the nineteenth century

Glamorgan County History. Vol. II. Early Glamorgan, Prehistory and Early History. Editedby H. N. Savory. 30 × 21 cm. Pp. xx + 506, 58 figs. + 23 pls. Cardiff: Glamorgan County History Trust, 1984. ISBN 0-904730-04-2. £39.95

Greater Medieval Houses of England and Wales, 1300–1300. Vol. 1, Northern England. By Anthony Emery. 290mm. Pp. xii + 435, ills. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. ISBN 0-521-49723-X. £80.00

Handbuch der Urgeschichte, I, Ältere und Mittlere Steinzeit, Jäger- und Sammlerkulturen. Edited by Karl J. Narr. 9¼ × 6. Pp. 516 + 22 pls. + 101 figs. Berne: Francke Verlag, 1966. 78 DM

Historic Towns: Maps and Plans of Towns and Cities in the British Isles, with Historical Commentaries, from earliest Times to 1800, vol. 1. Edited by M. D. Lobel. 16¼ x 12¼ in. 78 pp., 55 maps. Oxford: Lovell Johns, 1969. Price £5 5s. ⬇️

Kenilworth Castle

Kenilworth Castle, Warwickshire ⬇️

Kenilworth Castle, Warwickshire

Konigshagen, ein archaologisch-historischer Beitrag zur Siedlungsgeschichte des sudwestlichen. Harzvorlandes. By Walter Janssen. 6¼ x 9½ in. viii + 246 pp., 21 figs., 20 plans and maps in separate folder ⬇️

Land and Work in Medieval Europe. Selected Papers by Marc Bloch, translated by J. E. Anderson. 8½ x 5½ in. xii + 260 pp. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1966. Price 30s. ⬇️

Lincolnshire Architectural and Archaeological Society, Reports and Papers, n.s, VIII. Edited by D. M. Owen. 8½ x 5½ in. 112 pp., 10 figures, 5 plates. Lincoln: published by the Society, 1960. Price 20s.

Maps and Plans in the Public Record Office: I, British Isles, c. 1410-1860. Compiled by H. N. Blakiston. 10 x 6 in. xv+648 pp. London: H.M. Stationery Office, 1967. Price £55s ⬇️

Medieval Archaeology in England: A Guide to the Historical Sources. By Colin Platt. Pinhorn's Handbooks, no. 5. 8¼ x 5¾ in. 32 pp. Shalfleet Manor, Isle of Wight: Pinhorns, 1969. Price 12s. ⬇️

Medieval Bishops' Houses in England and Wales

Medieval Fortifications. By John R. Kenyon. 250 × 180mm. Pp. xvi + 233, 83 figs., 2 tables. Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1990. ISBN 0-7185-1289-8. £35·00

Medieval Technology and Social Change. By Lynn White, Jr. 8½ x 5¾. xii + 194 pp., 10 pls. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1962. Price 32s. ⬇️

Mittelalterliche Burghugel ('Motten') im nordlichen Rheinland. (Beihefte der Bonner Jahrbucher, XVI.) By Michael Muller-Wille, 10½ x 7½ in. vii+115 pp., 6 pls., 59 figs. Cologne: Bohlau Verlag, 1966, Price 22 DM. ⬇️

N. P. Stanley Price (ed.): Conservation on archaeological excavations, with particular reference to the Mediterranean area. Rome: ICCROM, 1984, 158 pp., illustrated

Norman Castles in Britain. By Derek Renn. 10 x 6 in. xiii + 364 pp., 49 pls. (1 in colour), 76 figs., 6 maps. London and New York: John Baker and Humanities Press, 1968. Price 106s. or $17.50 ⬇️

Pickering Castle, Yorkshire

Prehistoric Russia, an Outline. By Tadeusz Sulimirski. 10 × 6. Pp. xxiii + 449 + 50 pls. + 91 figs. + 32 maps + 23 tables. London: John Baker, 1970. £7.35

Problerne der Kustenforschung im sudlichen Nordseegebiet, Bd. ix (Schriftenreihe der Niedersachsischen Landesinstitutes fur Marschen- und Wurtenforschung, Wilhelmshaven). Edited by Werner Haarnagel. 12¼ x 9¼ in. 112 pp., many illustrations and tables ⬇️

RCHM (England): An inventory of the historical monuments in the City of York, vol. 2: The defences. London: HMSO, 1972. 233 pp., 66 pls. (4 in colour), about 100 figs. (unnumbered), 3 pull-outs. £7.25

Reallexikon der Germanischen Alterstumkunde. Founded by Johannes Hoops; 2nd ed., enlarged and fully revised. Edited by H. Jankuhn, H. Kuhn, K. Ranke and R. Wenskus. Bd. I, Lieferung I. 8½ x 6¾ in. 112 pp., 3 pls., 10 figs ⬇️

Reallexikon der germanischen Altertumskunde. Founded by Johannes Hoops; 2 ed., enlarged and fully revised. Edited by H. Jankuhn, H. Kuhn, K. Ranke and R. Wenskus. Bd. I, Lieferungen 2-3. 24 x 17 cm ⬇️

Recent Archaeological Excavations in Europe. Edited by Rupert Bruce-Mitford. 10×7½. Pp. xxviii + 335 + 46 pls. + 113 figs. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1975. £12·00.

Reviews

Reviews

Reviews of Books

Rheinische Ausgrabungen, I: Beitrage zur Archaologie des Mittelalters (Beihefte der Bonner Jahrbucher, XXVIII). 10½ x 7 in. 280 pp., 97 figs., 29 plates (one in colour). Cologne: Bohlau Verlag, 1968. Price DM 78. ⬇️

Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments in Wales. An Inventory of the Ancient Monuments in Glamorgan. Vol. III. Medieval Secular Monuments. Part 2. Non-Defensive. 28.5 × 22.5 cm. Pp. xxxviii + 398, 205 figs. + 47 pls. (inc. 4 col.). Car

Ruins: Their preservation and display

Rural Economy and Country Life in the Medieval West. By Georges Duby. Translated by Cynthia Postan. 9 x 6 in. xv + 600 pp., 10 pls., figures and tables. London: Edward Arnold, 1968. Price 90s. ⬇️

Short Reviews

Short Reviews

Stammesbildung und Verfassung. Das Werden der fruhmittelalterlichen gentes. By Reinhard Wenskus. 6½ x 9½ in. x + 656 pp., 2 maps. Cologne: Bohlau Verlag, 1962. Price (linen) 58 Dm. ⬇️

Stonehenge Complete. By Christopher Chippindale. 26 × 19 cm. Pp. 296, 260 ills. (inc. 13 col.). London: Thames and Hudson, 1983. ISBN 0-500-05043-0. £12·50

Studien zu fruhgeschichtlichen Befestigungen zwischen Nordsee und Alpen. Beihefte der Bonner Jahrbucher, Band XI. By Rafael von Uslar. 10½ x 7½ in. viii + 290 pp., 96 figs., 17 pls., 1 map. Koln : Bohlau Verlag, 1964. Price (linen) 38 DM. ⬇️

The Archaeology of Malton and Norton. By J. F. Robinson. 30×21 cm. Pp. xii+46+11 pls.+6 figs. Leeds: Yorkshire Archaeological Society, 1978. £2·50

The Castle in England and Wales. An Interpretative History. By D. J. Cathcart King. 24 × 16 cm. Pp. 209, 25 figs., 9 pls. London and Sydney: Croom Helm. ISBN 0-7099-4829-8. £25·00

The Decline of the Castle ⬇️

The Decline of the Castle

The Green Knight's Castle

The Medieval Buildings of Stamford (Stamford Survey Group, Report I). By Alan Rogers, with introduction by W. A. Pantin. 11¼ x 8¼ in. 57 pp., 61 figs., 1 map. Nottingham: University of Nottingham, Department of Adult Education, 1970 ⬇️

The Rise of the Castle

The Royal Hordes, Nomad Peoples of the Steppes. (Library of the Early Civilizations.) By E. D. Phillips. 8½ × 6 in. Pp. 144+141 illustrations (some in colour). London: Thames & Hudson, 1965. Price 30s

The Sketchbook of Villard de Honnecourt. Edited by Theodore Bowie. 7½ x 5¼ in. 144 pp., 64 pIs. Bloomington and London: Indiana University Press (American University Publishers Group, Ltd.), 1968 (?). Price 21s. ⬇️

The Slavs. By Marija Gimbutas. 8 × 6. Pp. 240 + 75 pls. + 63 figs. London: Thames & Hudson, 1971. £3.50.

The Spade in Northern and Atlantic Europe. Edited by Alan Gailey and Alexander Fenton. 9½ x 6¾ in. xiv+257 pp., 33 pls., 88 figs. Belfast: Ulster Folk Museum and Institute of Irish Studies, Queen's University, 1970. Price 33s ⬇️

The Uses of Air Photography, Nature and Man in a New Perspective. Edited by J. K. St. Joseph and published under the auspices of the Cambridge University Committee for Aerial Photography. 12¼ x 9¾ in. 166 pp., 84 pls., 5 figs ⬇️

The Viking Achievement, the Society and Culture of Early Medieval Scandinavia (Great Civilizations Series). By Peter Foote and David M. Wilson. 8½ x 9¼ in. xxv+473 pp., 29 pls., 59 figs. London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1970. Price 65s. (£3.25). ⬇️

The abandonment of the castle in Wales and the Marches

The third Chateau-Gaillard conference at Battle, Sussex ⬇️

Timber Castles. By Robert Higham and Philip Barker. 255 × 200mm. Pp. 390, 241 ills. London: Batsford, 1992. ISBN 0-7134-2189-4. £47.50

Tools and Tillage, a Journal on the History of the Implements of Cultivation and other Agricultural Processes. Edited by Axel Steensberg, Alexander Fenton and Grith Lerche. Vol. I, no. 1, 64 pp., illus. Copenhagen: G.E.C. Gad, 1968 ⬇️

Town Defences in England, an Architectural and Documentary Study, A.D. 900-1500. By Hilary L. Turner. 14X22 em. 246 pp., 40 pls., 4 line drawings. London: John Baker, 197I. Price £2 '90. ⬇️

Warfare in England 1066-1189. By John Beeler. 9½ x 6½ in. xiii+493 pp., 13 figs. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1966. Price $12.50 ⬇️

Medieval Bishops' Houses in England and Wales ⬇️

The Rise of the Castle