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Informationen zum Autor Charles Phillips is an established writer of popular history, a contributor to Cassell's Dictionary of Modern Britain as well as to the Chronicle of Britain and several illustrated histories. He has a keen interest in the mythology and history of the great Maya and Aztec civilizations and was a key writer on Time Life's Myth and Mankind series. Charles is a graduate of Oxford University, he holds an MA from the University of Westminster and is a member of the Society of Authors. David M. Jones, consultant, studied Anthropology and History at the University of California, Berkeley, and obtained a PhD in the Archaeology of the Americas at the Institute of Archaeology, University of London. He also earned a BSc in Earth Sciences at the Open University in 2000. David is the author of The Inca Empire: An Illustrated History and co-author of The Mythology of the Americas. Dr Jones is also the co-author of the Blue Guide Mexico and has written many articles on Mesoamerican and South American art for The Grove Dictionary of Art. Klappentext This lavish visual history traces and records the development of Britain's finest secular buildings in the years up to 1486. It describes and explains the changes in method and style from the ancient earthworks and Roman forts to the splendors of castle building.
