An illustrated guide to the architecture of medieval fortifications, from the first castles to the fortified cities of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Detailed pen-and-ink drawings are accompanied by text describing the types of buildings, built-in defenses, and particular castles and cities.

Provides an illustrated guide to the architecture of medieval fortifications, from the first castles to the fortified cities of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. In hundreds of detailed and thoroughly researched pen-and-ink drawings, it introduces the reader to a heterogeneous group of buildings whose unique characteristics show the development and diversity of European medieval military architecture.