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 ...

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?

Just outside the castle walls, they discovered eight ... are shedding new light on what is believed to be the longest siege ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...