Fighting Yesterday's Battle

Beyond War or Status in Castle Studies

Bibliographic Data

ID9377249
AuthorsOliver Creighton (0000-0003-3051-0370), Robert Liddiard (0009-0005-6944-3971)
Year2008
Volume52
Issue1
Pages161-169
Publication date2008-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueMedieval Archaeology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0076-6097 • E-ISSN: 1745-817X
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1179/174581708x335477
OpenAlexW2077653521
LanguageEN
Citations received18
References cited10

Interdisciplinary approaches to the study of medieval castles have transformed the subject over the last quarter of a century and taken it away from its militaristic roots. In Medieval Archaeology 51 (2007) Colin Platt published an article that reasserted defence as the primary motivation in castle building. This paper suggests that continuing 'defence vs symbolism' debates are detrimental to the subject, which needs to develop a distinctive research agenda of its own but also foster greater links with complementary fields of scholarship. Interdisciplinary approaches to the study of medieval castles have transformed the subject over the last quarter of a century and taken it away from its militaristic roots. In Medieval Archaeology 51 (2007) Colin Platt published an article that reasserted defence as the primary motivation in castle building. This paper suggests that continuing 'defence vs symbolism' debates are detrimental to the subject, which needs to develop a distinctive research agenda of its own but also foster greater links with complementary fields of scholarship

Archaeology · Battle · Library science · Militarism · Political science · Politics · Quarter (Canadian coin · Scholarship · Subject (documents · Yesterday · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Classics · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies · History · Law

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