INSIDE A MEDIEVAL CASTLE
Jun 09, 2022
3 minutes
WORDS JO ELPHICK
When you think of the medieval period you likely imagine knights on horseback, jousting contests and, most important of all, a magnificent stone castle. But it wasn’t just ruling monarchs who owned castles, and although these imposing buildings seem very British, they actually first appeared across Central Europe.
In order to understand why castles became so popular in medieval Europe, it’s necessary to look at life in the
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