and to get women and children out before the besiegers closed in around the castle. A trebuchet—such as the one that NOVA built—would only be launched if a castle resisted. NOVA: This was when ...

During the siege of Stirling Castle, King Edward I of England ordered the world's biggest ever trebuchet to be built. It was called the Warwolf. Attackers surrounding a castle in a siege could use ...

Pupils from a Derbyshire school stepped hundreds of years back in time to see how science can be put in practice when they ...

Professor Richard Holmes, a British military historian featured in the NOVA film "Medieval Siege," talks here about everyday life in a medieval English castle, giving a sense of how lords and ...