Medieval Engineers - The Anatomy of a Castle (Episode 1)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 1 ต.ค. 2024
- Welcome Medieval Engineers to a series that will cover the anatomy of a post Roman, pre gunpowder era, European castle of stone construction.
In this episode we will take a look at the keep, curtain wall, gatehouse, and postern gatehouse.
Next up in the series: The forebuilding, curtain wall and gatehouse access, the mote, the barbican, and more!
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Intro Music: “Parting Glass” by Jason Shaw
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Outro Music: “Sailor’s Lament” by Jason Shaw
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another feature of the bartizan overhang, Machiculatioooooons!
Shad is everywhere
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Hello! I'm amazed by your knowledge about european castles! Congratulations!
Let me add some info to the ones you shared in your video.
'Talus" were also a tool for to make bouncing whatever you could throw from the top of the vertical walls on the enemies. The stones thrown from the top of the wall had the same effect on the enemies as balls out of a cannon.
Battlements were never "naked" on the top. They were always covered with a wooden structure (wall, roofs and floor with "holes") to protect defenders. Otherwise, to show yourself between two slots to shoot at the ennemies would have been real suicide.
The keep, the dungeon ("donjon" in french) was never reachable from the groundfloor. The only door to get in was usually placed about 5 to ten meters from the ground. You would enter the dongeon using a simple ladder (XIIth and XIIIh century). Later on they got accessible by a drawbridge.
The "postern" was actually a very tiny door made in the battlements, usually hidden, so poeple inside the castle could communicate with the "external world" even during siege. It was a weak point of the the defense though. Some castles display an underground path network for the same purpose.
I hope this info is interesting and helpful and inspiring tool for this great game "medieval engineers".
By the way, I love your videos about "space engineers" as well ! They are all interesting and inspiring.
And... I apologize for my weird "english"... I am french !
A good reference to medieval architecture is this book though written by a french architect from 19th century (he restored Notre-Dame in Paris) :
fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionnaire_raisonn%C3%A9_de_l%E2%80%99architecture_fran%C3%A7aise_du_XIe_au_XVIe_si%C3%A8cle
It is a sort of dictionary (and it is in french, but google has a nice translator) and has some useful illustrations.
Have fun!
Raphaël B.
Hi there Raphael B,
Thank you for the kind words and the additional information! And, no need to apologize for your English -
it is excellent!
Thanks for watching, and happy engineering :)
A little bit of a late response to this, but I must add that not all battlements were roofed. Many examples of non-roofed battlements can be found in illuminations in books of the time period, to mention one is "Chroniques d'Angleterre" in it, it shows a castle being besieged, and where archers are not housed by a roof or relative constructions. And once more another source being from the 15th century is an illumination of the Siege of Brest, where it shows these bare battlements, and even on towers.
My sources linked here;
"Chroniques d'Angleterre" fineartamerica.com/featured/1-archers-15th-century-granger.html
"Siege of Brest" www.sciencephoto.com/media/551456/view/siege-of-brest
And indeed, the crenels on these battlements weren't the most safe parts of the battlement, and indeed there were advancements made to these, in the form of arrow-loops being added to the merlons to permit the defenders to stand behind the crenellations without being exposed too much. Although, this was not widespread, and only a handful of castles have these "arrow-looped merlons". A great example of this is Conwy Castle in Northern Wales.
The keep of the castle was not always unreachable from the ground floor, this is just a matter of design, and extra expense. As some keeps were the entire castle itself, and thus were accessible even from a door on the ground. Many fortified manor houses which can be considered castles, sometimes do not have the luxury of a raised keep. Of course for later period castles, mostly 13th century and on, and much larger castles, using these higher set doorways was a more commonly used option, as usually the owners of these castles could afford extra defenses for their castle. A great example of a mostly ground level castle is "Château de Crupet", although to make up for this lack of doorway defense, there is a moat and bridge in front of the castle.
Of course, this is not to say these practices were not done in the circumstances I've said, it's all a matter of circumstance, and affordability, and everything else imaginable with building a fortified private structure. The medieval period was WIDELY diverse, and so designs were no different.
Hope you'll be able to see this comment, and I hope you have a wonderful day/night.
It's a shame quality videos like this get very little views, and some kid yodeling randomly gets millions. SMH.
What is the game your'e building on?
Just a dumb question, but how do you connect the slope part of the wall to the round tower?
Still no machiculationd in the game
cool video. thank you
my English teacher showed me this haha
Silvester Zamora nice teacher
Awesome video, learned a lot about castle fortifications and architecture. Now I know much better how to build mines in a realistic way!
It is incredible, it resembled a documentary
YOU ARE AWESOME ! Keep doing such greeeaat stuff !
Really awesome video, love your style and between this and your space engineers videos I've looked at you've got a new sub!
+97Lithane Thanks Lithane!
Great
This is the coolest thing I've ever watched
Liked and subbed!
More medieval.
Well done!
How is it that this video has so few views, but there are dozens of bumbling "first impressions" videos with thousands? There really isn't any justice when it comes to youtube popularity.
If only I knew… Thanks for the kind words; and as always, thanks for watching!
Exactly! Any moron with $30 bucks and fraps freeware can make a "first impressions" video.
I'm personally waiting till Medieval Engineers has more content and mods before getting it. However, in spite not yet having the game, this was still very useful and informative for when I do finally acquire the game! When is the next episode due?
I’ve been focusing on space engineers more lately (this episode didn’t get as many views as I had hoped), but I will circle back around to this before too long to at least finish this mini-series. Thanks for watching and sorry for the wait!
Understandable. I think vids like this will do better when Medieval Engineers is further along. Much smaller player base then Space Engineers at the moment! Still an good vid in my book. I look forward to the next vid when its eventually released!
Is this on the workshop?
***** It is not, though I suppose I could put it up :) Thanks for watching!
Subbed due to this video. Would love to see episode 2 :-)
I know it has been a while - I'll get E2 out soon! :)
Glad to hear that! :-D