The material on the covers of books from a French abbey was too hairy to have come from calves or other local mammals.

Fulton (University of British Columbia), a specialist on medieval military practice ... Fulton ends the book with a chapter reviewing overall trends in the evolution of fortification design and siege ...

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 ...