The Keep Within

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Anderson, William. (1980) Castles of Europe: From Charlemagne to the Renaissance. London: Ferndale. ISBN 0-905746-20-1. Tuulse, Armin. (1958) Castles of the Western World. Newton Abbot, UK: David and Charles. ISBN 978-0-486-42332-6. The Keep Within is a return to the dark, scheming world from Pennyblade, filled with danger, secrets, dark plots, and all the gray characters you could ever want.

As a result of this evolution in meaning, the use of the term keep in historical analysis today can be problematic. [6] Contemporary medieval writers used various terms for the buildings we would today call keeps. In Latin, they are variously described as turris, turris castri or magna turris – a tower, a castle tower, or a great tower. [6] The 12th-century French came to term them a donjon, from the Latin dominarium "lordship", linking the keep and feudal authority. [7] Similarly, medieval Spanish writers called the buildings torre del homenaje, or "tower of homage". In England, donjon turned into dungeon, which initially referred to a keep, rather than to a place of imprisonment. [8] Purton, Peter. (2010) A History of the Late Medieval Siege, 1200–1500. Woodbridge, UK: Boydell Press. ISBN 978-1-84383-449-6. Pennyblade' doesn't so much reinvent well-worn fantasy tropes as stab them to death in a dark alley. Kyra Cal'Adra is a lethally alluring protagonist weaving an intricate tale rich in ferocious action and multifaceted intrigue, all topped off by a deliciously vicious twist." –Anthony Ryan, author of "Blood Song", "The Wolf’s Call" and more

I would like to thank Olivia from Titan for an advance copy of this novel in exchange for a fair and honest review Creighton, Oliver Hamilton and Robert Higham. (2003) Medieval Castles. Princes Risborough, UK: Shire Publications. ISBN 978-0-7478-0546-5. a b c Alexander, Chris (19 October 2015). "In Defense of Michael Mann's 'The Keep' ". ComingSoon.net. Archived from the original on 8 January 2023.

Anyone work on 'The Keep' in 1980s". Life in the Vertical. 8 July 2011 . Retrieved 14 December 2012. The Keep Within is excellent from start to finish. Great characters, rich intrigue, full of twists, turns and some delightfully dark moments. And it’s funny! I loved it."—Peter Newman, award-winning author of The Vagrant and Deathless series At the instigation of the local village priest, Father Mihail Fonescu, the Germans retrieve an ailing Jewish historian, Theodore Cuza, from a concentration camp. Cuza deciphers a mysterious message written in Old Slavonic using the Glagolitic alphabet emblazoned on a wall of the citadel. Molasar saves the professor's daughter, Eva, from sexual assault by two Einsatzkommandos and cures Cuza of his debilitating scleroderma by touch. Cuza becomes indebted to the entity, who demands that Cuza remove a talisman from the keep so that Molasar can escape its confines. Cotter, Padraig (5 January 2017). "The Disappearance of Michael Mann's The Keep". Den of Geek. Archived from the original on 8 January 2023.Jones, Nigel R. (2005) Architecture of England, Scotland, and Wales. Westport, US: Greenwood Publishing. ISBN 978-0-313-31850-4. In this instance the book works so well because of all the great characters. The main protagonist is Larksdale, but the story is told from several perspectives including one of the Queens and a mysterious witch like character. We even get to see events through the eyes of the killer, Red Marie. There is magic and folklore weaved through the book, but also a grittiness. Worrad likes nothing better than to pop a character’s arrogance should it get too much. There are some great twists that the reader will not see coming. Deighan, Samm (29 January 2020). "The Forgotten Golem: Michael Mann's The Keep (1983)". Diabolique Magazine. Archived from the original on 8 January 2023.

Full of dark intrigues, wonderfully layered characters, and a dazzling plot that twists and turns in satisfying ways, this book is masterfully written and just bloody fantastic to read.”—Sebastien de Castell, award-winning author of The Greatcoats and Spellslinger series The Keep Within was mostly very good. I liked the plot and I liked the characters. There’s a lot of intrigue and plotting to murder people and I love a good bit of plotting. The story is well paced and I never felt bored at all while reading it. The only thing that didn’t really gel for me was the tone of the book in some places. It’s a very darkly comic novel, which is fine, but when characters feel genuine emotion, it tends to veer a little too far into melodrama. Harry is the perfect example of this. He spends so much time being the butt of the joke, especially in the beginning, so that when he is genuinely feeling some emotion, it feels a little too comedic. Hulme, Richard (2008), "Twelfth Century Great Towers – The Case for the Defence" (PDF), The Castle Studies Group Journal, 21: 209–229 In 1941 in Romania, following the commencement of Operation Barbarossa, a motorized Gebirgsjäger unit of the Wehrmacht, under the command of Captain Klaus Woermann, arrives at an uninhabited citadel – simply known as 'the Keep' – with the aim of taking control of the Dinu Pass in the Carpathian Mountains. Two soldiers, privates Lutz and Anton, attempt to loot a metallic icon within the keep but accidentally unleash a spectral entity which kills them. The being, known as Radu Molasar, proceeds to kill five more soldiers in the following days and begins to take corporeal form. A detachment of SS Einsatzkommandos, under the command of sadistic SD Sturmbannführer Erich Kaempffer, arrives to deal with what is thought to be Soviet partisan activity in a nearby village. He executes three civilians as collective punishment and takes another five as hostages, despite Woermann's protests.Rybin, Steven (2013). Michael Mann: Crime Auteur. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-810-89084-8. As with the new keeps constructed in France, these Anglo-Norman designs were informed both by military thinking and by political drivers. The keep at Orford has been particularly extensively analysed in this regard, and although traditional explanations suggested that its unusual plan was the result of an experimental military design, more recent analysis concludes that the design was instead probably driven by political symbolism and the need for Henry to dominate the contested lands of East Anglia. [7] The architecture would, for mid-12th century nobility, have summoned up images of King Arthur or Constantinople, then the idealised versions of royal and imperial power. [68] Even formidable military designs such as that at Château Gaillard were built with political effect in mind. [69] Gaillard was designed to reaffirm Angevin authority in a fiercely disputed conflict zone and the keep, although militarily impressive, contained only an anteroom and a royal audience chamber, and was built on soft chalk and without an internal well, both serious defects from a defensive perspective. [69] This is a weird book for me to review. For the most part, I really enjoyed it but there was just something that stopped me from loving it. Meirion-Jones, Gwyn, Edward Impey and Michael Jones. (eds) (2002) The Seigneurial Residence in Western Europe AD c800-1600. Oxford: Archaeopress. ISBN 978-1-84171-466-0. Keep design in England began to change only towards the end of the 12th century, later than in France. [63] Wooden keeps on mottes ceased to be built across most of England by the 1150s, although they continued to be erected in Wales and along the Welsh Marches. [64] By the end of the 12th century, England and Ireland saw a handful of innovative angular or polygonal keeps built, including the keep at Orford Castle, with three rectangular, clasping towers built out from the high, circular central tower; the cross-shaped keep of Trim Castle and the famous polygonal design at Conisborough. [65] Despite these new designs, square keeps remained popular across much of England and, as late as the 1170s, square Norman great keeps were being built at Newcastle. [66] Circular keep designs similar to those in France really became popular in Britain in the Welsh Marches and Scotland for only a short period during the early 13th century. [67]