Life in the Middle Ages

Castles, as I've noted in previous posts , really only first appeared around the year 1000, as a combination of palace and fortress.  Th...

Earlier I discussed the development of castles .  Here I want to discuss one of the earliest versions from the eleventh century, the motte-a...

The most important medieval nobles were the dukes and counts, that is regional authorities.  Let's start with the counts (and no, in spi...