Clarendon
Landscape of Kings
From the time of Henry I onward, the medieval kings of England had a country retreat: a place to forget the burdens of government, to meet with mistresses and to indulge their passion for hunting. Tom Beaumont James and Christopher Gerrard tell the story of this great royal landscape, the largest deer park in the medieval kingdom, from the Palaeolithic through to the present day. They paint an evocative picture of Clarendon's medieval hunts and of the royal court; in 1289 Queen Eleanor received in the Palace the heads of two cranes, captured by gyrfalcons. After its medieval apogee, Clarendon went through a further transformation, into a priv…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-905119-11-0
- EAN: 9781905119110
- Produktnummer: 2485553
- Verlag: Windgather Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
- Seitenangabe: 256 S.
- Abbildungen: col and b/w illus
- Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)
Über den Autor
Tom Beaumont James is Professor in archaeology and history at the University of Winchester. Christopher Gerrard is Reader in archaeology at the University of Durham.
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