Castles and the Anglo-Norman World

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

Preface
George Nobbs

Introducing Norman Connections
John A. Davies, Angela Riley, Jean-Marie Levesque and Charlotte Lapiche

Foreword: Living in the Twelfth-Century Cross-Channel Empire
David Bates


The Norman Connections Castles
Norwich Castle
Elizabeth Popescu

‘…traces of the original disposition of the whole’. Excavated Evidence for the Construction of Norwich Castle Keep
Brian Ayers

The Shifting Structure of Norwich Castle Keep, 1066 to c.1230
T. A. Heslop

Colchester Castle: ‘Some tyme stronge and statelye, as the ruynes do shewe’
Peter Berridge

Rochester Castle
Marc Morris

Le château de Falaise : bilan de 150 ans de restaurations dans plus de 1000 ans d’histoire
Charlotte Lapiche et Benoît Panozzo

Le château de Caen
Jean-Marie Levesque et Pascal Leroux

The Great Hall of the Dukes of Normandy in the Castle at Caen
Edward Impey and John McNeill


The Castles in Context
Châteaux et residences princières dans la Tapisserie de Bayeux
Pierre Bouet

Visible from Afar? The Setting of the Anglo-Norman Donjon
Jon Gregory and Robert Liddiard

Some Thoughts on the Use of the Anglo-Norman Donjon
Pamela Marshall


Recent Archaeological Research
Recent Research on the White Tower: Reconstructing and Dating the Norman Building
Roland Harris

Castle Heritage (Tenth to Thirteenth Centuries) in Lower Normandy and the Current State of Archaeological Research
François Fichet de Clairfontaine

Recent Excavations at Caen Castle (2005 to 2014): Medieval Forges and Renaissance Stable
Bénédicte Guillot


Presenting the Sites
Le château de Falaise (Calvados) : état des connaissances sur l’évolution du site castral du dixième siècle au treizième siècle
François Fichet de Clairfontaine, Joseph Mastrolorenzo et Richard Brown

The Question of Site Enhancement in Rural Contexts: Examples of Projects Managed by the Calvados Departmental Council (Conseil Général du Calvados), Lower Normandy
Nicola Coulthard


Sculpture and Objects
The Evolution of Capitals in Early Post-Conquest Architecture as Evidence for the Completion Date of the White Tower
John Crook

Anglo-Norman Elite Objects from Castle and Countryside
Steven Ashley


Index