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David Rollason is professor emeritus of history at the University of Durham. His books include Early Medieval Europe 300-1050: The Birth of Western Society and Northumbria 500-1100: Creation and Destruction of a Kingdom.
"""Rollason's dazzling treasury of site descriptions and pictures is the product of years of exploration, on-site and in libraries... A well-guided and meticulously illustrated tour, of a good selection of medieval Europe's most striking palatial monuments.""--Alexander Murray, Times Literary Supplement ""A grand tour, without hassle of airports, passports, or buses, of a sophisticated selection of medieval Europe's most renowned and important monuments; a tour conducted by a well-read guide, whose language is invariably clear, and is rendered more vivid and instructive by its cortege of carefully placed and labelled illustrations.""--Alexander Murray, Times Literary Supplement ""This lavishly produced text, encyclopedic in its scope and bibliography, examines the representations of the power of the ruler in buildings, landscapes, and events of continental Europe from the Roman period to the early modern era. Rollason links the forms of palaces, their surrounding lands, cities, sacred items and spaces, and places of enthronement and burial to ideological and personal power, illustrating each point with cases ranging from Tara to Constantinople, Muslim Granada to the Gothic north.""--Choice"
