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 ...

War in medieval times was about the control of land. Garrisons of knights and other soldiers who lived in castles controlled ... To do so, they would launch a siege. Over the centuries, medieval ...