Het middeleeuwse kastelenlandschap van het Oversticht:De ontwikkeling van landsheerlijke burchten, adellijke huizen en versterkingen in relatie tot het landschap en de samenleving in Noordoost-Nederland tussen 1050-1450

Nowadays, the North-Eastern Netherlands is not known for being a region with many castles. But in the Middle Ages, at least 134 episcopal castles, noble houses and fortifications existed here. This area, known as the Oversticht, was part of the episcopal principality of Utrecht in the Middle Ages. In this thesis, the development of the Oversticht castles is analysed in relation to space and time between 1050 and 1450. To this end, a new methodological and theoretical approach is introduced: the castle landscape model. This model offers the opportunity to research the interaction between castle... Mehr ...