Benefits and challenges of studying Kenilworth
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- Created on: 03-06-18 10:42
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- Benefits and Challenges of studying Kenilworth
- Benefits
- Much of the site is still there- we can visit and study the remains
- It was royally owned for much of its history, so has very well-preserved records and archives. We can see what changes were made
- Appears in other historical records, so helps us to understand its wider national and local significance
- Significant feature on the landscape for nearly a millennium, so many visualisations and interpretations have been made to help us visualise original appearance.
- Challenges
- Now a ruin, so we don't know its original appearance
- Has changed dramatically over its history, so we don't know which parts belong to when
- Interpretations may be affected by opinions and bias
- Very few drawings of the early castle
- Artists often worked from incomplete data or romanticized the ruins in the Victorian era
- Artistic license means we do not know how accurate some of the reconstructions are
- Benefits
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