Crusader Castles (Art Architecture) pdf torrent

Crusader Castles
Clarendon Press/Oxford | 1988 | ISBN 019822964X | English | 204 pages | PDF | 55.7 MB

This volume reproduces Lawrence's text, drawings, and photographs; provides a new introduction, critical notes, and index; and reassesses in light of recent scholarship Lawrence's controversial claim that Crusader castles of the 12th century owed more to castles in the West than to anything the Franks found in the East, and that western military architecture absorbed little or nothing from the Orient before the 12th century