Why Living In a Castle Was Pure Misery | Human Voiced, No Ads

00:00:00 Intro and Welcome
00:02:50 Built for War, Not Comfort
00:08:11 Cold, Dark, and Drafty Halls
00:16:33 Imagine the Smell...
00:26:11 Rats and Their Friends
00:33:43 Health and Sickness
00:41:36 Crowding and Lack of Privacy
00:47:27 Siege
00:54:47 Thoughts and Conclusions

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Sources and Further Reading

Susan Abernethy (2013). Margaret Plantagenet, Queen of Scotland.

Károly Erdélyi (2022). Living in a Medieval Castle.

Karen Dempsey (2019). Seven things you probably didn’t know about life in medieval castles.

Mark Cartwright (2018). Toilets in a Medieval Castle.

Emma Felling (2020). Medieval Hygiene.

Margaret Paston (1469). Letter to John Paston describing the siege of Caister Castle (in The Paston Letters).

James of St. George (1295). Letter on the building of Beaumaris Castle.

Margaret Wade Labarge (2003). Mistress, Maids and Men: Baronial Life in the Thirteenth Century.

Joseph Gies & Frances Gies (1974). Life in a Medieval Castle.

Anonymous (1393). Le Ménagier de Paris (The Good Wife’s Guide).

Information sourced from Wiki, Gutenburg, JSTOR, primary and secondary sources. All information is congruent with archaeological and history evidence at the time of recording.