Item Number: 134820 Title: 'A House that Thieves Might Knock At' : Proceedings of the 2010 Stirling and 2011 Dundee Conferences on ‘The Tower as Lordly Residence’ and ‘The Tower and the Household’ Author: Oram, Richard (ed) Price: Not Available ISBN: 9781907730405 Description: Donington: Shaun Tyas, 2015. 25cm., hardcover, 320pp. prof. illus., most in color. Contents: Gillian Eadie, Identifying Functions in Castles - a Study of Tower Houses in Ireland ; Thomas Finan: Hall Houses, Church and State in Thirteenth-Century Roscommon - the Origins of the Irish Tower House ; Shannon Marguerite Fraser and Thomas Addyman, The Price of Ambition: Making the House of Muchall fit for Lordship ; Taco Hermans, Tower Houses in the Netherlands ; John R. Kenyon, The Yellow Tower of Gwent, Raglan Castle, Monmouthshire, Wales ; Erik Matthews, Politics, Pleasure and Prestige - the Context of Lammerside Castle, Mallerstang Cumbria ; Charles McKean, A Taxonomy of Towers - a Reconnaissance of the Difficulties in Scotland ; Przemyslaw Nocun, The Fourteenth-Century Ducal Tower of Siedlecin - the Largest and Most Representative Tower House in Silesia (South-Western Poland) ; Richard Oram: The Incomplete Exemplar: Douane Castle and the Great Tower in Later Medieval Scottish Castles ; Penelope Dransart, Arma Christi in the Tower Households of North-Eastern Scotland ; Gillian Eadie, 'Know you that serving folk be of three kinds' - Irish Towers and the Familia ; Taco Hermans, Towers and Households - Eating at Polanen Castle ; Pamela Marshall, The Angevin Donjon and its Legacy in Post-Conquest britain ; Paul Naessens, Murchadh Ó Flaithbheartaigh and the Aggrandisement of Aughnanure castle ; Richard Oram, Towers and Households in Later Medieval Scotland ; Rory Sherlock, The Evolution of the Irish Tower House: 1400-1650.
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