What a castle siege is How people prepared for a siege ... Use this drawing of a medieval trebuchet to help you. Image caption, Can you draw a trebuchet and label the different parts?

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 ...

Just outside the castle walls, they discovered eight ... are shedding new light on what is believed to be the longest siege ...

There were endemic food crises in medieval England as a result of which many people died. If you knew a siege was coming, you stocked up even more. In 1173, for example, Salisbury Castle thought ...