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

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 ...

So, researchers turned to the medieval lore ... the author describes a siege carried out at Sverresborg Castle in 1197, according to the study. The text was likely written by an Icelandic scholar ...

A medieval French castle dripping with history — and possibly Napoleon’s hidden gold — is for sale, asking $3.8 million. The Chateau de Saint-Chartier, a 1,500-year-old fortress in Saint ...

Sheffield Castle underwent a siege in 1644 as part of the civil war ... left behind by a steelworker in a cellar as well as medieval tokens and newly discovered castle walls as the site ...

Stone-Throwing Machines and Their Effects on the Medieval Castles of the Syrian Coastal Region. In. P. Edbury, D. Pringle and B. Major eds. Bridge of Civilizations: The Near East and Europe, c.

It's a great week for going medieval. Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 crashed through Steam's gates on Tuesday, and now here comes survival sandbox Rust with its Primitive update. It's got swords ...

Look out for…Charles I was the castle’s most famous resident but today the best-known modern residents are the much-loved Carisbrooke donkeys. Find out more here. Once the home of Richard III, ...

There were endemic food crises in medieval England as a result of which many people died. If you knew a siege was coming, you stocked up even more. In 1173, for example, Salisbury Castle thought ...