Readings:

Gies and Gies, Life, Chap. 3 (pp. 57-74)

Holmes, pp. 18, 82 (mid-page) -87, 178 (last paragraph) -191

Paper topic (Assignment 3):
The year is 1300. You are an elderly lady or lord, living in a castle in Wales. Describe three of your castle’s most inconvenient or uncomfortable features.

Discussion topic:
What is the difference between comfort and luxury?
Give 3 examples from medieval castles that illustrate this distinction.

Dirleton Castle, East Lothian (Scotland):
Exterior (13th cent.); another view
Moat, bridge, and batter of external walls
Reconstruction of medieval appearance of Dirleton Castle
Plan
Courtyard, from roof
Storerooms below 14th-cent. Great Hall
Bakehouse
Kitchen fireplace
Draw well (water was drawn from ground floor and also floor above)
13th-century Hall (interior); another view; detail of window embrasures; fireplace; vault; exterior
Lord’s chamber?
Latrine
Ramparts, with dome of 13th-century Hall ; slide for rolling stones from ramparts
Spiral staircase
Arrow slit (interior)
Prison stair; prison; reconstruction of prison and pit
Upper floor (ruins)
Sixteenth-century dovecote  (exterior); interior ; reconstruction, showing potence
14th-century Great Hall;  Buffet in 14th-century Great Hall

Gravensteen Castle (1180), Ghent (Belgium):
Aerial photo; another view
Plan
Exterior
Entrance
Chapel; another view
Lower hall; detail of fireplace
Undercroft; another view
Ramparts; another image
Latrine;  wooden shutters

Maciejowski Bible (c. 1250):
Constructing the Tower of Babel
A family meal
David watches Bathseba bathe
David in bed with Bathsheba

Great halls:
Chepstow Castle, Monmouthshire (hall in Great Tower, begun 1067): façade and interior; and new hall block exterior (1270-1300) and interior
Castle Hedingham, Essex (c. 1140)
Remains of great hall of Winchester Palace, Southwark, with vaulted undercroft (c. 1220, with rose window c. 1320); drawing of the palace in 1660
Caerphilly Castle, Glamorgan (begun 1268; hall remodeled 1320s): exterior (on right); interior
Penshurst Place, Kent (late 14th cent.)

Wall paintings:
Wall paintings, 13th cent., St. Agatha’s Church, Easby, Yorkshire: Adam and Eve expelled from Eden
Wall painting, 13th cent., All Saints’ Church, Burton Dassett, Warwickshire: 3 Magi (detail)
Wall paintings, c. 1200, Hornslet Church, Denmark: Battle scene, and another battle scene
Decorated wall, c. 1175, Hvorslev Church, Denmark

Other details:
Garderobe, Peveril Castle, Derbyshire, and town wall garderobes, Conwy, Wales
Well house with donkey treadmill, Carisbrooke Castle, Isle of Wight
Kitchen, Windsor Castle, Berkshire (late 15th cent.), in 1819), and in a recent photo (after repair of roof following 1992 fire),
and in a painting by Alexander Creswell of the restored kitchen after the fire of 1992
Tiled floor, Westminster Abbey chapter house

inner courtyard
timber ramparts
passage
upper rooms
roof timbers
kitchen, with chute (at left) for slops (the pigeon boxes were added in the 19th cent.)
domestic range adjoining orchard
window overlooking orchard
tourists in the orchard
another range
SE wall with garderobe