Castles

• Historical
  • Anderson, William. Castles of Europe from Charlemagne to the Renaissance. New York: Random House, 1970. 304pp.
  • Brown, R. Allen. English Medieval Castles. London: B.T. Batsford, 1954. 208p.
  • Burke, John. Life in the Castle in Medieval England London: B.T. Batsford, 1978. 120p.
  • Hirai, Kiyoshi. Feudal Architecture of Japan. New York: Weatherhill, 1973. 166pp. Translated by Hiroaki Sato and Jeannine Ciliotta.
  • Kenyon, John R. Medieval Fortifications. Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1990. 233pp.
  • King, David. Castellarium Anglicanum: An Index and Bibliography of the Castles in England, Wales, and the Islands. Milwood, NY: Kraus International, 1983. 2 vols.
  • McNeill, Tom. Castles in Ireland: Feudal Power in a Gaelic World. London: Routledge, 1997. 261pp.
  • Platt, Colin. The Castle in Medieval England and Wales. London: Secker & Warburg, 1982. 210p.
  • Pounds, N.J.G. The Medieval Castle in England and Wales: A Social and Political History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. 357p.
  • Thompson, M.W. The Decline of the Castle. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. 211p.
  • Toy, Sidney. Castles: Their Construction and History. New York: Dover Publications, 1985. 241pp. Originally published by W. Heinemann in 1939.
  • Warner, Philip. The Medieval Castle: Life in a Fortress in Peace and War. New York: Taplinger Pub. Co., 1971. 262pp.
  • The Castles of Wales. Information about and photos of many Welsh castles. URL http://www.castlewales.com/home.html.
  • Castles of Japan. Information, photos, and a map of many castles of Japan. URL http://www.magi.com/~ttoyooka/oshiro.
  
  
• Literary
  • Kline, Naomi R. ed. Castles: An Enduring Fantasy. New Rochelle, NY: A.D. Caratzas, 1985. 113pp.
  • Reyerson, Kathryn and Faye Powe, eds. The Medieval Castle: Romance and Reality. Dubuque, IA: Kendall/Hunt, 1984. 228pp.
  • Ross, Charles. The Custom of the Castle: From Malory to Macbeth. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1997. 205p.