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Cover
Front Matter
Title Page
Publisher Information
Dedication
Castles
Introduction: What makes a castle a castle?
CHAPTER ONE: The coming of castles
What did the first castles look like?
How to make a motte
A flat-pack castle?
A chapel story
The versatile Tower
Off with their heads!
Serving a life sentence: the Tower of London ravens
CHAPTER TWO: Kings, lords and knights
Fractured knights
Fractious knights
Becoming a knight
Correct terms for carving meat
Kitting out a knight
Take good care of your armour
The castle staff
The man they loved to hate
CHAPTER THREE: Siege stories
Siege weapons
Personalised
Some siege deaths - and a near thing
Siege chivalry
A flight of fancy
The dirty tricks department
CHAPTER FOUR: Crusader castles
Greek fire
Going native
A touch of eastern splendour
Meet a hospitaller
CHAPTER FIVE: At home in a castle
How the lady of the castle should behave
Feeding the castle
Garbage
Mind your manners
Lenten complaint
Household tips
Keeping clean
Five top tips for fighting fleas
Five good ways of waging war on flies
Advice to a trainee servant, c. 1460
Now for the basics
What’s in a name?
CHAPTER SIX: The castle improved
Awkward angles
Doing a moonlight flit
A castle drama
Here comes a chopper
CHAPTER SEVEN: Castle entertainments
Choosing a fowler
Making trotters trot
Tournaments
Souls in peril
A wet day in the castle
A grand occasion
CHAPTER EIGHT: Castles of the East
Indian castles
Elephants
The tragic siege of Chittorgarh
Death before dishonour
Japanese castles
Okiku’s well
CHAPTER NINE: The decline of the castle
Firearms
Roaring Meg
Romantic ruins
Decisions, decisions
The country-house castle
Windsor
CHAPTER TEN: Castles of the imagination
To boldly go...
The Round Table
Dracula’s real home?
CHAPTER ELEVEN: New uses for old castles
Defending the realm
So this is Colditz!
Fancy honeymooning in a prison?
Spooky castles
Tourism
Timeline of Castle History
Glossary
End matter
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