Apr 21, 2015 · Edinburgh and Stirling Castles have many of their Medieval and Renaissance buildings still intact, which have been refurbished to represent how they might have looked during these periods. Craigmillar Castle, located just outside Edinburgh, is an example of a well-preserved ruin and today it is much as it would have been when it fell out of use ...

Jul 8, 2016 · A few hundred Norman knights, in the service of the Pope, had managed to conquer Calabria and Sicily in Italy and set themselves up as kings, a few years before 1066. The Normans also knew how to build invulnerable defensive positions on dominating heights called castles, from which they could terrorise and subdue the local population.

Aug 6, 2013 · Classical, medieval drawbridges worked via the simple principle of counterweight, with large wood and metal bridges pivoted via a series of balancing weights in a castle’s gatehouse. The weights, which were attached to the bridge’s lifting chains, enabled the platform to be raised via a windlass, which in turn rotated a pair of lifting ...

Aug 25, 2017 · Toni Mount is the author of Medieval Medicine: Its Mysteries and Science. For more of life in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, subscribe to History of Royals and get every issue delivered straight to your drawbridge. Sources: B Gummer, The Scourging Angel: The Black Death In The British Isles, Vintage Books 2010

Dec 24, 2024 · Exploring the strange possibilities for history if 20th century events went a different way. What impact would the Titanic have had on the effort to control the Atlantic during WWII if it hadn’t sunk?

Dec 26, 2024 · From Vikings to Byzantium and Charlemagne to the Saxons, explore the wide world of Dark Ages Europe. Are the stereotypes about the early-Middle Ages true or a fiction concocted during the Renaissance as they fell in love again with Classical history?

Aug 16, 2018 · He also ruled a strong and stable Scotland for almost a decade, putting it on the European map as a place of international renown. King Macbeth, in a portrait painted in 1680 – long after he (and Shakespeare) had died. Scotland in the 11th century was much different to the one we know today, made up of a patchwork of loosely connected kingdoms.

Dec 6, 2016 · I don’t think I have seen a building which would help explain to children quite the relationship the Norman castles would have had with the surrounding landscape in Norman times, quite as much as Fylindales. The other thing about it is that – when we talk about nuclear deterrent, it tends to be a philosophical concept, doesn’t it?

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Feb 23, 2016 · Medieval impression depicting Edmund Ironside (left) and Cnut (right). Why did he give up his rule of Wessex? Canute had made the conscious decision to take personal control of Wessex on his accession to the throne.