1. Medieval life – villages,
Manors, and castles

2. MedievAl
villages

3. Village house (WITH THATCHED ROOF)

4. Villages

5. Medieval manors (or the manorial system)

6. MEDIEVAL MANOR

7. Manor
houses

8. Motte and bailey
Style castles
(mound and courtyard)

9. MOTTE AND BAILEY CASTLE CONSTRUCTION
AT ITS HEIGHT

10. CASTLE ARCHEOLOGY

11. A MOTTE TODAY

12. CASTLE KEEPS – strongest part of the castle and where the family
lived

13. KRAK DE CHEVALIER CASTLE IN SYRIA
INFLUENCE OF the CRUSADES
ON CASTLE BUILDING
Western Christians learn castle
Construction from the Muslims of
the middle east
KRAK DE CHEVALIER CASTLE
IN SYRIA

14. COOL CASTLEs

15. ANOTHER CASTLE
*NOTE THE CRENELLATED CASTLE WALLS

16. Neuschwanstein Castle in Bavaria, Germany
(“New Swan Stone”)

17. CASTLE DEFENSES
KEEP
MOATs

18. HOARDINGS Attached to exterior wall, allowing defenders to shoot
or drop things on anyone
at the base of the wall

19. MOATS

20. PORTCULLIS – wood or iron grille-like gate at castle entrance

22. PORTCULLIS LEVER
DRAW BRIDGE FROM INSIDE VIEW

23. CATAPAULTS - siege engines or weapons that hurled objects at castle walls
*Actually specific devices with specific names
Exs. Trebuchets, Mangonels, Ballistas, etc.