Professor Richard Holmes, a British military historian featured in the NOVA film "Medieval Siege," talks here about everyday life in a medieval English castle, giving a sense of how lords and ...

Typically, for example, she did embroidery and that sort of thing, but for most women in medieval England, it was a life of hard manual labor. Jesters would visit a castle to entertain both ...

What a castle siege is How people prepared for a ... Use this drawing of a medieval trebuchet to help you. Image caption, Can you draw a trebuchet and label the different parts?

are joining the team at Guédelon to recreate 13th century life and discover the secrets of the medieval castle builders. Thousands of tons of earth and stone were needed to build a castle ...

medieval-style stronghold with hidden doors, intricate woodwork and a 3-mile-long railroad that once encircled the property. Tthe amenity-filled park offers museum exhibits, castle tours ...