Question

O compunere in engleza despre viata ta intr-un castel

Answer 1

Life in a medieval castle would have been ordered and organised, full of pomp and ceremony, and also very cold and smelly!

Essentially, castles were at the heart of Medieval society.

Castles were built in England and Wales after 1066.  They cemented a new social system of feudalism in place. Each new castle secured the power of the local lord over his vassals.

To serve the lord, most castles would have been places of frenzied domestic activity.

Life in a medieval castle was filled with a constant hubbub of busied work in the kitchens, preparations for celebrations in the Great Hall, and religious worship in each castle’s own chapel.

And the layout of a typical Medieval castle tended to be influenced by domestic needs rather than defensive concerns.



However, of course, life in a Medieval castle would have also included military activities. On many days, knights would have practiced their skills to defend their lord – and his king – in battle. Preparations were made to defend the castle in case it came under siege, and machinery was made to defend the castle in times of attack.

Castles were constantly re-designed and adapted to provide the best possible defence against new and unwelcome threats. There were many different obstacles built to defend Medieval castles.

These obstacles included everything from moats (sometimes with spikes within) to gatehouses which contained all manner of obstacles, tricks and traps.

Some castles occasionally even housed prisoners in their dungeons. Prisoners were most often kept for political reasons, and were sometimes held in terrible conditions.