Anglo-Saxon Towers of Lordship habit Author(s): Charles Larson

Author(s): Charles Larson

Persecuted in his lifetime by secular and ecclesiastical authorities

and historical materialism

Anastasia Zarkos

This second edition comprises an updated preface which summarizes the period of tumult and the significant transformation

Anglo-Saxon Towers of Lordship habit Author(s): Charles LarsonIt has long been assumed that England lay outside the Western European tradition of castle building until after the Norman Conquest of 1066. It is now becoming apparent that Anglo Saxon lords had been constructing free standing towers at their residences all across England over the course of the tenth and eleventh centuries. Initially these towers were exclusively of timber, and quite modest in their scale, although only a handful are known from