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 ...

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NOVA: What about the role of women inside the castle? What were they doing day-to-day? Holmes: Well, by and large, and this is a very broad generality, women had a subservient role in medieval ...