The Turris Famosa at Ivry-la-Bataille, Normandy
Resource type
Book chapter
Creator (person)
Impey, Edward
Date published
January 15, 2003
Abstract
Famose in the time of Orderic, the turris at Ivry-la-Bataille deserves to be so once again. It has, first of all, the largest footprint of the known 'Great Towers' in continental Europe. Secondly, dating from round 1000, it is perhaps the Duchy's oldest medieval secular building of which remains still stand. Thirdly, in plan and dimensions it is strikingly similar to the most famous example of the type the White Tower in London. The scale, type and even the existence of such a building may also, in time, shed some new light on the nature, resources and personalities of the ducal family and the Norman aristocracy at the turn of the first millennium.
Book title
The Seigneurial Residence in Western Europe AD c800-1600
Editor
Impey, Edward
Meirion-Jones, Gwyn
Jones, Michael
Pagination
189-210
Publisher
Archaeopress
Place of publication
Oxford
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