The Story of Durham

The Story of Durham
Author: Douglas Pocock
Publisher: The History Press
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2013-07-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0750953004

The Story of Durham traces the evolution of a city that medieval writers likened to Jerusalem, which Ruskin termed one of the wonders of the world, and which Pevsner, more modestly, called one of the architectural experiences of Europe. To Bill Bryson, meanwhile, Durham appeared ‘a perfect little city’ with ‘the best cathedral on planet Earth’. The city is a physical manifestation of a significant event in our history: the Romanesque cathedral and castle together constitute this country’s monument to the Norman invasion, the last of our country. Beautifully illustrated, this popular history by a leading academic will delight residents and visitors alike.

County Durham

County Durham
Author: Nikolaus Pevsner
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 656
Release: 1983-01-01
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780300095999

The premier monument is Durham Cathedral, greatest of English Norman churches. Lovers of the Middle Ages will also seek out the county's exceptional Anglo-Saxon churches, while many of its great castles - Brancepeth, Raby, Auckland, Lambton - conceal palatial Georgian and Victorian interiors. The landscape varies dramatically, from the wilds of Teesdale and Weardale, in the west, to the pioneering industrial ports of Sunderland and Hartlepool on the coast, including fine gentry houses and stone-built market towns. South Tyneside and northern Cleveland, historically part of County Durham, are also covered.

Lordship and the Urban Community

Lordship and the Urban Community
Author: Margaret Bonney
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 330
Release: 2005-11-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521022859

The book examines the subsequent developments in religious and military building work on the peninsula which accompanied the growth of a successful urban community in the eleventh and twelfth centuries.

Landscapes of Settlement

Landscapes of Settlement
Author: Brian K. Roberts
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 220
Release: 1996
Genre: Historical geography
ISBN: 9780415119689

Heinrich Schenker: A Research and Information Guide is an annotated bibliography concerning both the nature of primary sources related to the composer and the scope and significance of the secondary sources which deal with him, his compositions, and his influence as a composer and theorist.