- Hardcover: 194 pages
- Publisher: Clarendon Press; New Ed edition (8 Dec 1988)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 019822964X
- ISBN-13: 978-0198229643
- Product Dimensions: 24.7 x 15.8 x 1.7 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 947,102 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"This new edition greatly enhances the older edition. There are three new appendices, including some previously unpublished material from Lawrence's hand, all of which make Lawrence's argumentation clearer. Equally important are Pringle's new introduction and editorial notes, which assess Lawrence's contribution in the light of subsequent scholarship."--Speculum
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A new edition of the classic text on Crusader castles and their relation to the military architecture of the West, written by T. E. Lawrence (of Arabia) while still an undergraduate at Oxford in 1910. At the end of the nineteenth century, it was generally assumed that these castles were the prototype for the massive buildings erected in Northern France and England in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Lawrence opposed this view: unlike most earlier writers on the subject, he was already familiar with castles in England, Wales, France and Syria as a result of a series of expeditions made on bicycle or foot, culminating in 1909 in a three-and-a-half month walking tour of the Levant. Although his thesis was to guarantee him a first-class degree in Modern History, its impact on scholarship was slower to take effect. The typescript remained virtually unknown until 1936, a year after the author's death, when it appeared in a limited edition of the Golden Cockerel Press. Crusader Castles is now offered to a wider readership. The original text is reproduced without alteration; but a selection of the pencilled notes which Lawrence added to the typescript, in preparation for a revision that was never made, are included as footnotes, together with additional editorial notes and bibliographical details. Lawrence's work is also assessed in the light of seventy-five years of subsequent research, in an introduction prepared by Denys Pringle.
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`Everybody thinks I am mad to walk, and the escort offered me a mount on the average once a half-hour ... in parts of my journey I seem to have been the first European visitor'
`A harbinger of the modern crusade he was to embark upon as Lawrence of Arabia'
MARK BOSTRIDGE
Before he became famous throughout the world as Lawrence of Arabia, T. E. Lawrence travelled through Britain, France, Syria and Palestine to research his undergraduate thesis on `The Influence of the Crusades on European Military Architecture to the End of the Twelfth Century'. Lawrence's brilliant observations have since been confirmed by modern research. Moreover, the thesis and correspondence that make up Crusader Castles give us an insight into both Lawrence's fascination with the Crusades and his origins as an adventurer.
After visiting the major sites in England and Wales, Lawrence crossed Ottoman-controlled Syria on foot and by bicycle. He wanted to prove that, contrary to the received wisdom of the time, the castles built by the Normans during their campaigns were not influenced by Byzantine architecture, but conformed to a purely Western model. In 1909, Syria and the Holy Land were remote and dangerous destinations, and few historians had actually seen a crusader castle. His 1,100-mile journey was arduous in the extreme, but Lawrence succeeded in seeing 36 of the 50 castles on his itinerary, and acquired a taste for adventure. Letters home express his thrill at travelling incognito and immersing himself in Arabic culture. `I will have such difficulty in becoming English again: here I am Arab in habits, and slip in talking from English to French and Arabic unnoticing.'
In 1936, the year after Lawrence's death, Crusader Castles was published by the Golden Cockerel Press in a limited edition uniting Lawrence's thesis with a selection of his letters. This Folio Society edition follows the text of this edition, and is illustrated throughout with the author's sketches and photographs as well as a rare early portrait of Lawrence taken by James Elroy Flecker. A new introduction by historian and biographer Mark Bostridge considers Lawrence's `formative passion for the medieval world' alongside his thirst for exploring the East.
`A harbinger of the modern crusade he was to embark upon as Lawrence of Arabia'
MARK BOSTRIDGE
Before he became famous throughout the world as Lawrence of Arabia, T. E. Lawrence travelled through Britain, France, Syria and Palestine to research his undergraduate thesis on `The Influence of the Crusades on European Military Architecture to the End of the Twelfth Century'. Lawrence's brilliant observations have since been confirmed by modern research. Moreover, the thesis and correspondence that make up Crusader Castles give us an insight into both Lawrence's fascination with the Crusades and his origins as an adventurer.
After visiting the major sites in England and Wales, Lawrence crossed Ottoman-controlled Syria on foot and by bicycle. He wanted to prove that, contrary to the received wisdom of the time, the castles built by the Normans during their campaigns were not influenced by Byzantine architecture, but conformed to a purely Western model. In 1909, Syria and the Holy Land were remote and dangerous destinations, and few historians had actually seen a crusader castle. His 1,100-mile journey was arduous in the extreme, but Lawrence succeeded in seeing 36 of the 50 castles on his itinerary, and acquired a taste for adventure. Letters home express his thrill at travelling incognito and immersing himself in Arabic culture. `I will have such difficulty in becoming English again: here I am Arab in habits, and slip in talking from English to French and Arabic unnoticing.'
In 1936, the year after Lawrence's death, Crusader Castles was published by the Golden Cockerel Press in a limited edition uniting Lawrence's thesis with a selection of his letters. This Folio Society edition follows the text of this edition, and is illustrated throughout with the author's sketches and photographs as well as a rare early portrait of Lawrence taken by James Elroy Flecker. A new introduction by historian and biographer Mark Bostridge considers Lawrence's `formative passion for the medieval world' alongside his thirst for exploring the East.
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