Difference between revisions of "Talk:*Castle"
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-ideas about gatekeeper/gatehouses -relationships to waterways -Accommodations -Reuse from Medieval to Renaissance -conspicuous consumption; social status or symbol of power; balancing defense and comfort
"A castle is a 'fortified residence which might combine administrative and judicial functions, but in which military considerations were paramount' (Saunders 1978:2)" (p. 4 Johnson)
"[A castle is] 'a house in which the dfensive features completey overshadow the domestic one' (Thompson 1998:5)" (p. 4 Johnson)
-Castle vs. fortified residence
-Vision/Towers--Foucaultian?
