Castle

Imagine walking through a town in the 1500s, and noticing a large tower with openings all around the base; this tower isn’t meant to keep enemies out, no it’s probably a blast furnace. This is tool invented back in the 1300s which we still use today. There are many things to note about the blast furnace such as what it is, how it works, it’s history, and it’s application. The medieval Blast Furnace could be described as a large tower. The Blast Furnace has many features that stand out such…

Medieval inventions, armor, and weapons made medieval life so much easier and more productive. Medieval weapons included a lot of items one included was the battle axe and it was used to chop and cut enemies and other items. Medieval armor were very inconvenient in the matter of weight and mobility, some armor weighed from 66 all the way up to 110 pounds. Medieval inventions made life much easier and less complicated an invention mentioned are blast furnaces were used to make fire alive and to…

This essay will be discussing the armor and weaponry used in medieval England. Also it will consist of how did real-life warriors usually prepare for battles. In the legend, “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” they used weapons that will be talked about in this essay. According to medievalwarfare.info, in the medieval England some of the weapons that were used were, bladed hand weapons, blunt hand weapons, polearms, ranged weapons, and other siege weapons. A bladed hand weapon that was common…

Swords The swords varied widely in terms of weight and size, but the pattern of the classical medieval sword remained partly unchanged. The average weight was around three pounds, with there being two general classes of swords - War sword and two hand sword. Warriors were trained from a young age. There are three main elements of a typical medieval sword; the blade, the crossguard, and the pommel. The pommel was simply a knob of metal at the end of the hilt but there was some shaping to these…

Europe’s amazing castle hotels provide guests with a glimpse back into the days when royalty ruled. Five of Europe’s best castle hotels for the holidays There is certainly something special about visiting a castle. It inspires us to dream of knighthood or perhaps someone like King Arthur during a period when kings and queens ruled over their kingdoms. Dreams can still come true the instant you visit or stay in some of Europe's greatest castles. The following are five castles in Europe that…

from the Medieval Times were the castles. Medieval Castles were build for over 500 years, around 100 AD to 1500. Castles were a display of the owners rank, and wealth. The first castles were made of wood, but the Medieval people soon discovered the wood was easy to burn, therefore in 1100 CE they decided to use stone. The Medieval people decided to build moats around many,…

made by all of the ronin. All of the ronin had a choice when before lord Asano commute seppku. Some of the samurai wanted the peaceful surrender of Ako castle, other samurai recommend defending the castle to the death and a few wanted immediate death towards lord Kira. The samurai had to come to a majority decision and that was to surrender the castle peacefully. After they vowed to get revenge on Lord Kira for they believed he was the one to…

I chose to write about the book, The Glass Castle, written by Jeannette Walls. This book or memoir was quite alarming in that it tells the horrific stories of child abuse, abject poverty to eventually Jeannette and her siblings becoming successful with healthy families and relationships of their own. The Walls family that was constantly on the move led by mentally ill mother (Rose Mary) and an alcoholic father (Rex). The memoir starts outs with Jeannette seeing her mother crawling through a…

the English - Stirling Castle. Robert, meanwhile, struck out into England, raiding parts of Yorkshire. King Edward II decided to send a very large army - likely numbering nearly twenty thousand men, with a large contingent of cavalry - to break the siege and push Bruce back (Phillips, 221). Bruce’s army, meanwhile, likely was no more than a third the size of Edward’s, and he withdrew to near the siege as well. Bruce maintained a small amount of soldiers to siege the castle, then brought the…

Jeannette’s childhood consisted of negligent parents and her long time dream of getting away from them by moving to New York to fulfill what she dreams of being, a journalist. She knew something better was out there than always having to work in order to keep a roof over her family’s heads. She knew, when she received the right amount of money, she needed to do something for herself by moving away from her family. She also knew she had what it takes to go to New York by herself because she was…