Title: Le pietre del re :
Authors: Sconfienza, Roberto.
Date: 2011
Publisher: Archaeopress,
Physical description: xii, 196 pages : illustrations, maps ; 30 cm.
Language: Italian
LC classification: U
Abstract: "This work presents a preliminary report on some new studies in the field of Italian Postmedieval Archaeology. The first part refines the definition of Military Archaeology, sketched by the author in BAR S1920, 2009, Pietralunga 1744, with a studied review from the Classical to Postmedieval periods. The second part, The Stones of the King, presents the main features relating to the archaeology of field-fortifications along the western alpine frontier of the Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia, in the second half of the 17th and the 18th century. Accordingly, part one includes the historical development of that particular alpine frontier region and its permanent (or temporary) fortifications; subsequently the text illustrates alternative research studies on 18th-century field-fortifications, while the concluding part proposes a preliminary classification of the main features of field-fortifications, with several examples and illustrations from the western Alpine territory."--Publisher's website.
Contents: Prefacione / Rosina Leone -- Introduzione -- Archeologia e archeologia militare. L'archeologia militare -- Archeologia militare e archeologia postmedivale -- L'archeologia militare moderna in Piemonte -- Le pietre del Re. La difesa limitanea dello Stato Sabaudo e la fortificazione campale -- La trattatistica di fortificazione camplale nel XVII secolo -- Le componenti della fortificazione campale alpina classificazione preliminare -- Le componenti della fortificazione campale alpina esemplificazione archeologica delle categorie -- Immagini delle pietre del Re -- Bibliografia generale.
Subject headings (LCSH): Fortification--Italy.; Military architecture--Italy.