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All Castle Defences Explained | Features, Uses & How They Developed 

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00:00 Introduction
00:43 How did castles develop?
02:00 Motte and Bailey Castle
02:34 Stone Castle
03:04 Concentric Castle
03:37 The Decline of Castles
04:16 The Development of Defensive Walls
05:57 Parts & Features of a Castle Wall
06:12 Enceinte
07:10 Ramparts
07:24 Battlements
07:36 Crenelations
08:44 Arrowslits
10:47 The Development of Arrowslits
12:16 Types of Arrowslits
13:45 Loopholes & Cannoniers
14:15 Hoardings
15:56 Machicolations
17:19 Plinth/Talus/Batter
18:35 Brattice
19:48 Bartizan
19:58 Buttresses
20:18 Bastion
20:35 Shield Wall
21:05 Wall Towers
22:50 Open Back Tower
23:22 Tower Shapes & Designs
26:12 Flanking Towers & Tower Location
27:06 Moat Use & Development
29:25 Dry Moat
29:57 Neck Ditch
30:38 Cross Ditch
30:52 Wet Moat
32:19 Gatehouse
34:39 The Approach
35:45 Drawbridge
36:43 Drawbridge Types & Designs
40:16 Gatehouse Door
41:34 Wicket Gate
42:51 Pedestrian Gate
43:43 Portcullis
45:08 Portcullis Trap
45:36 Gatehouse Passage
45:58 Murder Holes
46:49 Divine Protection
47:21 Trap Door
47:48 Later Gatehouse Developments
49:21 The Gatekeep
50:20 The Most Defensive Gatehouse
51:24 Built to Impress
52:07 Postern Gate & Sally Port
54:21 Barbicans
54:45 Barbican Types & Designs
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@KobeanHistory
@KobeanHistory 6 месяцев назад
Interested in more? Here is the link to my new Siege Tactics series: ru-vid.com/group/PLfp1VB3Lm4InbXuwikHZUoepyebzsgpv3&si=YjPSS4pg_m7357AM
@kinslowrainer3982
@kinslowrainer3982 2 года назад
Best. Castle. Video. Ever.
@tomdanks3427
@tomdanks3427 Год назад
And that's not an opinion it's a fact
@anyrealitybutthisone804
@anyrealitybutthisone804 Год назад
I'm genuinely a little irritated that the RU-vid algorithm waited until this had been available for a YEAR to recommend it to me. This is just wonderful. Absolutely S Tier edutainment. Thank you!!
@srice8959
@srice8959 Месяц назад
Same for me,but instead it’s 2 years
@Khether0001
@Khether0001 2 года назад
This is just incredible, the amount of footage, illustrations and knowledge you've gathered here are NOT EASY to come by at all! My deepest and most sincere congratulations!!! I wonder if there is a single model showcasing all known castle features, regardless of historic period explaining what they do for didactic purposes.
@Grasso325
@Grasso325 Год назад
Best video I’ve seen in a while - better than old History channel!
@anonymoususer1898
@anonymoususer1898 Год назад
Wonderful overview. Probably the most comprehensive I've seen.
@gbresaleking
@gbresaleking Год назад
When I was a kid I absolutely loved the ultimate visual series books about castles and Knights and this is the adult equivalent. Awesome work and info. :)
@CoHigh
@CoHigh Год назад
Got those for Christmas as a child. Still have them! You a real one.
@Mr_Chode
@Mr_Chode Год назад
are those the Stephen Biesty books? I probably mispelled his last name. Cross sections and such?
@gbresaleking
@gbresaleking Год назад
@@Mr_Chode yupp
@VincitOmniaVeritas7
@VincitOmniaVeritas7 3 месяца назад
Hohenzollern Castle in Germany has a very interesting defense feature in its entrance: multiple “snail” shaped ramps that lead to the next redundant gate. I counted at least three instance where attackers would have to breach one gate, only to climb a 360° ramp for the next level (while being fully exposed to enemy fire) only to find yet another closed gate. The fact that there are no straight paths to the gates makes battering rams impossible to be implemented against them.
@Moppup
@Moppup Год назад
Very impressive depth of knowledge! Thank you for making this. Its amazing to learn that most of the fancy embellishments on castles were actually defensive or useful in some other way, but makes sense given the utilitarian mindset.
@sauntor
@sauntor Год назад
Thank you for the education!
@lastedain450
@lastedain450 2 месяца назад
Great video. Very informative while being concise. Five stars!
@sunsetlights100
@sunsetlights100 Год назад
Comprehensive castles overview touching medieval style music
@zaredmartorana496
@zaredmartorana496 5 месяцев назад
Astounding video! Actually laughed out loud at the Brattice part 😂
@yukii8818
@yukii8818 24 дня назад
Great video 👍 Watched it all ! Much more helpful than architecture books as they often do not have enough pictures. It must have taken a lot of effort to get all these pictures and edit. Subbed ❤
@edhuber3557
@edhuber3557 Год назад
Well done.
Год назад
Dude this was awesome! I learned a lot! Thanks!
@flashgordon6670
@flashgordon6670 Год назад
Bribery and spies were a common way to get through drawbridges and or gatehouses. Attackers can also fire huge rocks from Trebuchets and catapults at them, build ramps and use battering rams, or a multitude of other ploys. That’s the sheer beauty of castle sieges, the imagination is the limit for both attackers and defenders. The most imaginative and inventive side and the one that prepared and had the most supplies, usually won the battle. Most siege outcomes were determined by illness and starvation. Whoever lost the least soldiers and had the best hygiene and food quality, would inevitably come out on top over a longer siege. And also which side could get reinforcements and relief from allies and supply chains. One of the most epic sieges of all, was the siege of Jerusalem in 70 AD by the Romans. There’s many fantastic videos about it on YT. There’s a 3D virtual reality modelling video of it that I saw some years ago. Also the last hold out of the Jews by the Dead Sea, was another all time epic siege. I won’t say what happened at these two sieges, bc I don’t want to spoil them for you, but you will be awestruck trust me.
@CoHigh
@CoHigh Год назад
Hard earned sub! Was a great video
@lucashinch
@lucashinch Год назад
Excellent
@SKILLED521
@SKILLED521 Год назад
Thanks for being REALLY COOL.
@will-i-am-not
@will-i-am-not Год назад
I am English and castles have always absolutely fascinated me. Been to many, such history within all of them, if you read about each one before you go
@kethtemplar8989
@kethtemplar8989 Год назад
YOUTUUUUBE! YOUR LOSING YOUR EDGE! I MEAN, REALLY?! How, HOW, does someone with my kind of search history NOT give you the Idea that i WANT to know a channel like this exists?
@j.j._
@j.j._ Год назад
Best guide ive found to help me build my dream castle.
@BGH1961
@BGH1961 Год назад
Excellent work. One point about moats being 'open cesspools' though. They weren't. They were fish ponds. Human and food waste was put into the ponds, which was broken down by algae which fed the fish. It is still common in rural Vietnam for example. Cities in Europe used such ponds to deal with waste as late as the 19th Century, until the population became too dense.
@flashgordon6670
@flashgordon6670 Год назад
They would’ve become cesspools in times of siege. When everyone crammed into the castle and the attackers would deliberately pollute the water with dead rotting animals and faeces.
@flashgordon6670
@flashgordon6670 Год назад
I L💛VE CASTLES! I thought I knew everything already about them, but I learned so much from this brilliant documentary. TY!
@Blimpie1000
@Blimpie1000 Год назад
Thank you so much for this.
@donloughrey1615
@donloughrey1615 Год назад
Wonderful presentation. Thank you.
@Raao1
@Raao1 Год назад
This is monumental work, be proud of yourself.
@solrosenberg4529
@solrosenberg4529 Год назад
This video is excellent, very interesting and well put together.
@kingslaphappy1533
@kingslaphappy1533 2 месяца назад
Indeed, I learned something!
@PeterLeban
@PeterLeban 2 года назад
Loved the original series, too. Great stuff!
@braquemar
@braquemar 2 года назад
Damn, somebody send this to Shad
@TrangDB9
@TrangDB9 Год назад
Shade's also very good with this topic, but the infos are scattered over too many videos.
@Daemon_venator
@Daemon_venator Месяц назад
That guy talks too much without actually saying anything
@PinnedonPlaces
@PinnedonPlaces 2 года назад
Incredible! really did enjoy watching
@ADB-zf5zr
@ADB-zf5zr 2 года назад
Most excellent, I will recommend your channel to anyone interested in such history :D
@Scalpp
@Scalpp 2 года назад
dude your channel is absolute gold. thank you for making these, youre incredible
@davieshire3698
@davieshire3698 Год назад
Amazing, thank you!
@rallemeister9043
@rallemeister9043 Год назад
Masterpiece
@ryhol5417
@ryhol5417 Год назад
Learned so much.
@Xplora213
@Xplora213 Год назад
Yep that was pretty damn good. I get a sense of respect for the old designs as well - the immense power of the Caerfilly barbican structure is great but it just wasn’t possible every time.
@odysseyshack
@odysseyshack Год назад
The most informative video ever!
@mrbean6484
@mrbean6484 2 года назад
This is the most comprehensive video I've seen on castles! It was a pleasure to watch :) I was wondering, does anyone know how the people assaulting a castle lowered the drawbridge? Aside from climbing the walls, have any attackers ever lowered a drawbridge from outside a castle? Or possibly bridged to a raised drawbridge and broken through it?
@KobeanHistory
@KobeanHistory 2 года назад
I haven’t looked into it in depth yet but I heard that with smaller drawbridges using exposed rope to lift them, it was possible to shoot the rope with arrows and open the drawbridge that way. Ive also heard of attackers filling the moat in a certain place to get to the castle wall so I imagine they could have done this at the gatehouse as well and break through the drawbridge that way. It is something i will look into further for a video in the future
@markfillery1002
@markfillery1002 Год назад
@@KobeanHistory the draw bridge would be locked in place most castles weare taken by stealth or the defenders opening the gates like Krak des Chevaliers they surrenderd
@Foxglove963
@Foxglove963 Год назад
So what? The portcullis would stop the attackers.
@Xplora213
@Xplora213 Год назад
@@Foxglove963 if they had one! You need a fair bit of advancement in your physics to build and use one.
@flashgordon6670
@flashgordon6670 Год назад
Bribery and spies were a common way to get through drawbridges and or gatehouses. Attackers can also fire huge rocks from Trebuchets and catapults at them, build ramps and use battering rams, or a multitude of other ploys. That’s the sheer beauty of castle sieges, the imagination is the limit for both attackers and defenders. The most imaginative and inventive side and the one that prepared and had the most supplies, usually won the battle. Most siege outcomes were determined by illness and starvation. Whoever lost the least soldiers and had the best hygiene and food quality, would inevitably come out on top over a longer siege. And also which side could get reinforcements and relief from allies and supply chains. One of the most epic sieges of all, was the siege of Jerusalem in 70 AD by the Romans. There’s many fantastic videos about it on YT. There’s a 3D virtual reality modelling video of it that I saw some years ago. Also the last hold out of the Jews by the Dead Sea, was another all time epic siege. I won’t say what happened at these two sieges, bc I don’t want to spoil them for you, but you will be awestruck trust me.
@gsr8553
@gsr8553 Год назад
Incredible amount of research ! What a a fantastic video ! Thanks a lot !
@cipriani8160
@cipriani8160 2 года назад
Thanks Mate!
@wouterl5316
@wouterl5316 Год назад
That's the Gravensteen or Count's Castle on the thumbnail, isn't it? Cool. 🙂
@philipphammer3474
@philipphammer3474 Год назад
Yes, I was in Gent last autumn and stayed directly across the street. Very cool view
@wouterl5316
@wouterl5316 Год назад
@@philipphammer3474 That's great. I really hope you enjoyed your stay in my beautiful city.😃
@philipphammer3474
@philipphammer3474 Год назад
@@wouterl5316 yes I really did. Went there for a conference and I must say Gent is such a beautiful city
@wouterl5316
@wouterl5316 Год назад
@@philipphammer3474 Very glad to hear that. 😃
@123parallax
@123parallax 4 месяца назад
my barbican is so big, it has barbicans of it's own
@Deepthought-42
@Deepthought-42 Год назад
Great video. 👍 As an avid castle visitor it would have been great to have a subtitle with the names of the castles and places in the video.
@williamjhunter5714
@williamjhunter5714 Год назад
Hunterston Castle in Ayrshire Castle is from 1263 AD. Made to prepare for the Battle of Largs. It is the best preserved Pele Tower in Scotland and still owned by the original Clan Hunter family. I made the longbows and warbow forvthe Castle in 2014 and shot them on the estate 180 yards in a Clout meet with the Ancient Society of Kilwinning Archers, which I was a member of at the time.
@humphrey4976
@humphrey4976 Год назад
I feel confident enough to storm a castle
@Jod5nn
@Jod5nn Год назад
I like how he say matchicolations
@badlandskid
@badlandskid Год назад
You are very thorough! You covered wet moats and dry moats. But you left out emotes.
@asraphampatua4469
@asraphampatua4469 2 года назад
love the video
@1joshjosh1
@1joshjosh1 Год назад
Holy crap this is a good video. You have a new subscriber. Me!!! Most of the castles I have seen have been in the middle east or the Mediterranean. But they seem to follow all the rules.
@MrDJdo
@MrDJdo 7 месяцев назад
Hehe the first castle at the start of the video is the Gravensteen over here in Gent (Belgium), altough it has been reconstructed at the end of the 19th century in somewhat of a medieval romantic way it's still a great castle to visit
@rajeshkanungo6627
@rajeshkanungo6627 Год назад
I was going to mention spikes, something I saw in many Indian forts and castles to protect against elephants. Pretty much made useless after the introduction of cannons and gunpowder.
@Oldman808
@Oldman808 Год назад
The most important feature of any castle is to build it over a well.
@laurean5998
@laurean5998 4 месяца назад
44:45 I assume the portcullis would be either wedged or simply blocked by a beam to prevent it getting lifted up. Saying it would be easy to lift it is only true if you have the element of surprise and it is not locked. I also assume the chapel in the gatehouse was meant to prevent any devil or whatever from entering the castle as they couldn't enter the house of god
@hounddog7256
@hounddog7256 Год назад
I enjoyed watching this, love castles tho...
@greggweber9967
@greggweber9967 Год назад
Attacking the castle in Perpignan France, after entering the gate and passing under the murder holes, you turn left and go up irregular steps. Archers are shooting arrows from i think all sides. At the end, you turn 180 degrees to the right and continue going up. Eventually, you are at the top, which is the ground level outside the smaller residence castle for the king of Majorca.
@ivanl7449
@ivanl7449 Год назад
Best defensvife strategy: Just build chapels all over the castle to cause the god's rage towards attackers.
@2adamast
@2adamast Год назад
For the attack on castle gaillard 1204 they entered through the newly added chapel "ils se seraient introduits en réalité par l'une des fenêtres basses de la chapelle que Jean sans Terre avait fait construire bien mal à propos."
@adamwee382
@adamwee382 10 месяцев назад
28:09 should be said that moats were not a hard counter to siege weapons like towers. There are many historical accounts of besieging armies filling in moats before assaulting the walls with towers.
@1joshjosh1
@1joshjosh1 Год назад
Your videos rule and the historical content is amazing but just 1 little suggestion. Other than the castle in Syria( I got to go to the krak pre-war) and when you specifically name the place you show all these beautiful pictures but I don't know where they are. Maybe just a small label corner of screen.
@larrywave
@larrywave 2 года назад
Great 😇
@MeEncantaKiley
@MeEncantaKiley Год назад
I think most castles had a main gate, but for smaller items, or maybe even people they can hoist them above the wall, to avoid risk of leaving the gate open.
@Paladinhistory
@Paladinhistory Год назад
We’ll done here! I’m working on my master’s in history and your research of this topic was impressive! I was in Belgium last summer and saw the Gravensteen castle. Have you done research on this one?
@KobeanHistory
@KobeanHistory Год назад
I haven’t done a specific video on it but I did research a bit about it for this video. I grew up around Ghent so I have visited it a few times as well.
@danieljstark1625
@danieljstark1625 Год назад
Nice. I only wish those parts of castles not spelled out had labels showing their spelling.
@mohamed-fb9vt
@mohamed-fb9vt Год назад
White wash was not to make the castle look nice but it is a protective layer from humidity
@edi9892
@edi9892 Год назад
I think that I've seen examples of gateless castles. However, if you'd call them a castle is a different story... The ones I'm thinking of were not much more than a single tower, or house on top of a rock. I have no idea how they were constructed in the first place, but it probably included a 30m climb... Anyway, they were somewhat common in the German-speaking areas. However, a far more common castle form that shares two similarities were church-like castles. In the same region, we had a lot of castles that often didn't even have a walled-in section, but were merely a house (timber frame, or stone) with an accompanying keep. This keep usually had no entrance in the ground floor, but a hand-cranked elevator to the ground floor. This windowless room on the ground floor could be used as a prison cell, but more likely as a vault for things that you would want to keep safe. Quite commonly, this castle had not much more than a great hall above some stables and above the vault, there were a few more floors with the private chambers of the lord, possibly a room for the scribe, and a weaponry and a lookout.
@mohamed-fb9vt
@mohamed-fb9vt Год назад
Hello sir Do you have any pictures or old depiction of those keep with hand cranked elevator ?
@edi9892
@edi9892 Год назад
@@mohamed-fb9vt I can't remember where I've seen a reconstruction. Maybe it was good old Violet LeDuc. Anyway, I've seen castle ruins where there were the tower had a room that could only be accessed from above, be it via a ladder or an absurdly steep stairway, this I cannot tell. In any case, you can still find many timber frame houses even in cities that had a hand cranked cargo lift. It's always the top window and below the remains of a pulley. I bet that these towers had something similar and probably a ladder.
@mohamed-fb9vt
@mohamed-fb9vt Год назад
@@edi9892 Thanks for feedback
@edi9892
@edi9892 Год назад
What's the point of having a round or semicircular barbican? Unlike circular towers, I see the shape here more as a disadvantage in terms of distributing fire. I'd rather have it a small castle with round towers, or make it triangular to concentrate the fire while keeping the dead angles at a minimum. BTW: I missed a concept, we call Zwinger. It's a narrow section with two separate gatehouses. It can be a small yard, a barbican, or a part in between the inner and outer wall. The key factor is that you need to cross it and break through the second gate and while doing so, you'll be attacked by archers from three if not all sides! The craziest iteration of it is the double spiral of death in Hohenzollern castle (two yards with a ramp spiraling up to the level of the main castle)
@markfillery1002
@markfillery1002 Год назад
the round arrow slits were gun ports or cannons so later in design.the draw bridge at dover is an internal gate so not very defended not a main defence i think the main gate house is the 2nd and behind that wall so it leads to a court yard dover has 2 or 3 walls and was breached but the english held off the french and filled in the breach in the wall.the solid portcalis may be later and to defend from musket fire as an open lattich design you could fire though
@gideonbolt8068
@gideonbolt8068 8 месяцев назад
Castles in england go back further than the Normans. There are early examples from 400-600 AD and possibly before like Tintagel in cornwall.
@KobeanHistory
@KobeanHistory 8 месяцев назад
I didn’t say there weren’t castles before the Normans, I said Normans introduced stone castles.
@Mr_Chode
@Mr_Chode Год назад
40:28 middle right panel, eyes and lips lol. theres a couple in the door actually
@Porkchop_Delight
@Porkchop_Delight 4 месяца назад
Amazing innovation! But not enough to prevent medieval ppl from becoming extinct
@davidrogers8106
@davidrogers8106 Год назад
Machicolationnnnnnnsssssss-aaaaah
@aznravechild6i9
@aznravechild6i9 Год назад
How goes you, fellow Shad enjoyer?
@davidrogers8106
@davidrogers8106 Год назад
@@aznravechild6i9 I'm shadtastic! It's always good to meet another!
@mikaelzakan1929
@mikaelzakan1929 Год назад
Forgive my ignorance, but what is the point of sieging the castle as opposed to starving it of necessary resources (a war of attrition if you will)? Can’t one also control the surrounding territory with the surrounding army which, I assume, is the ultimate goal of the siege?
@chriss3913
@chriss3913 Год назад
Nice vid. Funny how most caslte words came from french.
@SonOfTheOne111
@SonOfTheOne111 Год назад
Why are the castle walls in central Milan full of holes?
@moxiewatts
@moxiewatts Месяц назад
33:23 Elden Ring's Castle Morne lol
@peterheyes8552
@peterheyes8552 2 года назад
Question please. Is a bartizan the same thing as a turret?
@KobeanHistory
@KobeanHistory 2 года назад
A bartizan can be classed as a turret but not all turrets are bartizans. A turret can be generally defined as a tower or part of the defense that is elevated from the rest, while the bartizans most defining feature is that it overhangs from the wall.
@peterheyes8552
@peterheyes8552 2 года назад
@@KobeanHistory thanks for the reply. Woukd you be abke to make an in depth video about bartizans vs turrets?
@bryantcompton1642
@bryantcompton1642 Год назад
Sigirya is an interesting place.
@theElectricthrusts
@theElectricthrusts 2 года назад
👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
@detonationpyrotechnics4156
@detonationpyrotechnics4156 4 месяца назад
Imagine one rifle going back in time. You’d be king of the world lol. One ruger ar with a scope
@user-lt7sq4sr3t
@user-lt7sq4sr3t Год назад
Отлично.Спасибо. Очень интересно.
@matthewexline6589
@matthewexline6589 Год назад
@14:06 I have to question the validity of what you're saying. The muzzle shouldn't come out past the wall, you say, to avoid detection? I find this statement hard to believe. In modern combat, this is true, for several reasons: in modern combat, when people shoot from buildings, these buildings don't have arrow slits; they have massive windows and the walls around them aren't bullet proof either, so it's important in modern combat for a shooter not to expose himself with the barrel of his gun. Much less true for people in stone castles firing through arrow slits. The 2nd objection I have is the old-fashioned gun powder they would be using in the case of firearms and canons (which were the weapons being spoken of at 14:06). This propellant gave off massive plumes of thick smoke in every shot. I find it very hard to believe that they'd prefer to keep this inside of their fortification.
@ViolletLeDonPin
@ViolletLeDonPin Год назад
I believe they actually fired from inside the building, over the smoke, most castles, to my knowledge, had some air outlet for smoke from guns, like windows, ducts or chimneys
@Keef_DGAF
@Keef_DGAF Год назад
Good video.. However the Jericho reference sounds dubious to say the least
@ViolletLeDonPin
@ViolletLeDonPin Год назад
about machicolations, i had a shower thought these days, has any defender ever fallen from a machicolation? haha
@reagankessler8680
@reagankessler8680 10 месяцев назад
War technology has always been advanced
@dougpridgen9682
@dougpridgen9682 9 месяцев назад
In one of your videos, unless I misheard you, you said Jericho had walls dating to 8,000 BCE. That sounds factually incorrect, given that Egypt wasn't even unified until 3,100 BCE (Narmer Pallete), making this date Prehistoric (only 2,000 after the Neolithic Revolution). Did you mean to say 800 BCE or is that what you said and my memory is off? Thanks!
@KobeanHistory
@KobeanHistory 9 месяцев назад
Yes, thats right, I did say the walls of Jericho possibly are as old as 8000BCE. I based it on the information I found on Encyclopaedia Britannica: www.britannica.com/place/walls-of-Jericho#:~:text=Walls%20of%20Jericho%2C%20massive%20stone,water%20supply%20from%20human%20intruders.
@Mister_Beard
@Mister_Beard 6 месяцев назад
Love the history. But the castle as an idea is older than the carolingian empire. You have different fortified construct that date back way earlier than that
@johndoe-uy4ol
@johndoe-uy4ol Год назад
My castles barbican has 2 barbicans 😂🤣😂 that last king was compensating me thinks
@nealcarhart9519
@nealcarhart9519 Год назад
Wales
@comso3632
@comso3632 Год назад
I agree
@mohamed-fb9vt
@mohamed-fb9vt Год назад
Some most have fish farm in it
@mohamed-fb9vt
@mohamed-fb9vt Год назад
You forgot box machicolation It's an early tipe of machicolation it was invented by the romans
@franciscoosuna259
@franciscoosuna259 Год назад
You say the earliest castles date from the 800's. What about Kayseri Castle in Turkey that dates to 238 AD? Not to mention numerous other structures in the middle east that look a lot like castles in the middle east of about the same period? Some of them started as Roman earthen forts that could place the beginning close to the birth of Christ. What makes the European structures castles that the Turkish structures do not fit in that category?
@KobeanHistory
@KobeanHistory Год назад
If I remember correctly (correct me if I’m wrong), those were built as more of a communal defence. One of the defining features of a castle is that it was the residence of a lord or noble. Which sets it apart from a fortress or citadel.
@2adamast
@2adamast Год назад
Even in early europe, the romans mention gallic defenses made of stone backed by wood. Back then the romans see castellum as smaller than castrum and not by the presence of a small unelected war chief, still holds in early medieval period. Or later as for example Richard last castle siege (Châlus) isn't about the residence of a noble.
@wiltongodwin434
@wiltongodwin434 Год назад
Defense
@aaronsaunders6974
@aaronsaunders6974 4 месяца назад
idk that the _tower of london_ was norman.
@CharlesJenkins-be2cv
@CharlesJenkins-be2cv 5 месяцев назад
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@theElectricthrusts
@theElectricthrusts 2 года назад
Hey fellow kids
@edi9892
@edi9892 Год назад
I still struggle to understand machicolations. I've never seen any examples that were in their original form. I could imagine two different versions: 1) Putting trapdoors or wooden planks on top of the holes so that you cannot fall through (especially, when you're in low-light situations, or high-stress situations). It would offer more space and allows you to get directly to the wall, which gives you a wider field of view. The disadvantage being that you would need to manually remove the cover if you wanted to attack below, which would take time and potentially alert the opponent. 2) Putting a railing behind the holes. In that case, you can rest your crossbow or musket on the railing and you can quickly switch between firing far or down. The disadvantage being that you're further away from the loophole, which makes your job harder and the battlement would be more cramped...
@fredwood1490
@fredwood1490 Год назад
This castles must have been incredibly expensive to build and maintain, where did the Lord get the money for them? Was there a kind of credit union or bank where they could get credit or was everything paid for in cash, on order? (I understand that arranging credit was a function of the medieval Church as well as King's banks and foreign money lenders, but all had to be paid sometime.) Taxes on local produce and industry could only go so far.
@maineoutdoorsman677
@maineoutdoorsman677 Год назад
King David marched his troops around the walls of Jerico an god made them fall down
@bradmiller7486
@bradmiller7486 Год назад
Joshua, not David. David took Jersalem, not Jericho; commando attack, not display of Divine power.
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