Biography

Peter Harrison is a retired medical practitioner with a lifelong interest in military architecture. He has written on fortified churches in La Thierache in France, Peloponnesian castles and fortresses, the fortified village of Ushguli and the Pa Maori. Boydell and Brewer published his book Castles of God; Fortified Religious Buildings of the World in 2004 and it was shortlisted for the Longman-History Today Book of the Year Award in 2005.