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 ...

During medieval sieges, this destruction machine crushed castle walls. Using trial and error, medieval engineers adjusted the trebuchet to make sure its missile hit the castle wall—and destroyed it.

You don't have to go far to find one of the most fascinating medieval ... among the main figures of Empordà's history: kings, counts, and other feudal lords. Requesens Castle is an extraordinary ...