Castles and fortified cities. The contributions that new knowledge brings to the notion of authenticity

Beautiful book presenting the proceedings of the international scientific symposium held in September 2018 in Carcassonne (France), on the initiative of the Department of Aude, as part of the candidature for the UNESCO World Heritage Site of the City of Carcassonne and its sentinel mountain castles : Aguilar, Lastours, Monségur, Peyrepertuse, Puilaurens, Quéribus and Termes. The symposium brought together twenty experts, national and international scientists, around the notion of authenticity in terms of architectural heritage, with examples of several castles and fortified cities located in France, but also in Algeria, South Korea, Greece, the Canary Islands, Japan, Lebanon and Turkey.
Themes : The fortifications of the Mediterranean world / Fortifying and controlling a territory / Examples of fortified systems in the Far East / Examples of the management of fortified sites and systems in France : the authenticity of present-day monuments.