Taking into account the book Castles of Nottinghamshire, and over a decade of subsequent fieldwork and research, this course offers a detailed insight into a county that can offer Norman motte and bailey castles, a royal fortress, castles built for bishops, fortified manor houses and late mediaeval gatehouses.
Taught as discussion seminars, with the additional option of a field trip, over thirty Nottinghamshire sites will be placed in the wider context of mediaeval castle studies. Learners will engage with a variety of castles, great houses and palaces in order to understand their architectural and archaeological development from the Saxon period up until the English Civil War.
