“The castle, and all it represents, will always be with us. Once it was born, once the stone was made living, the repository of power made real, the idea could never be unmade.” –        David Day, Castles Early European Castles: Aristocracy and Authority, AD 800-1200, by Oliver Creighton. I was made aware of this book via an email from Paul Rosenberg at Freeman’s Perspective.  What piqued my interest was a map (sourced from the book), depicting the castles of various kings, lords, and nobles in Catalonia.  If I said that there were 200 such structures in this one province, I would probably be understating … Continue reading Castle Proliferation