Contents

Contents : The age of castles - people and power, building a castle, clues to the past; A castle town - gates and walls; market day; castle defences - warriors and arms, becoming a knight, the story of armour; castle life - food and drink, the kitchen, the great hall, home life, clean and healthy, keeping in fashion, the chapel, hunting and hawking, the joust, heraldry; Besieged - under attack, end of a siege; reference section - castles in history; glossary; index; acknowledgements;