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 ...

RUTH GOODMAN: This is how many of us think of the interior of castles. Bare stone, echoey, damp, gritty underfoot, but that's because we're used to ruins.When they were in use, back in the 13th ...

"In this trip, I wanted to highlight 'island life': people doing different stuff, things going on in the island," Jackson said. Some of the Jackson's favorite places were his time on the Isle of ...

Bolton Castle in North Yorkshire, a well-preserved medieval fortress with over 600 years of history, has unveiled a full ...

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 ...

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 ...