Castles During The Medieval Ages

Castles were a major step in the development of the medieval days from earlier times to later times. They had many different ways that they played their part. They also had many different ways that they were built, depending on the time frame they were made in. With castles came many laws that had to be followed. Laws back then were very different from laws that are made today. Castles didn't just start from the middle of thin air. Straw houses were one of the most popular houses that were made in the medieval time period. Straw houses were made by putting square straw bales on top of each other making them into a wall at whatever height you wanted. The roof was supported by a light weight wooden frame that kept the house intact. The roof …show more content…
The first stone castles started in Greece and were the first castles ever made even before wooden castles. Stone castles were mostly built where an old wooden castle or village was at so they didn't have to do any dirt work (The Age of Knights And Castles, 2011). Because stone castles were made out of stone they could only support tiny windows. The stone castles got very cold in the winter because the thick stone could never be fully warmed up by the sun. The only way the people had to heat the castles was to make fire places. Fire places worked by heating the stone as well as the chamber itself (Howarth, 1992). Fireplaces didn't come around until the middle of the medieval period. Castles didn't start improving until 1200s. Castles were very dark and needed candles to light them up. (Moris, …show more content…
The bathrooms were just a small antechamber that had a bench with a hole in it, that was the toilet, or garderobes. The waste that came from the people would fall into a big cesspool. Over the summer the cesspool would get really hot and would make the castle smell really bad. People back then didn't really care too much for privacy either, so the bathroom had no walls and were wide open, so you would be sitting right next to someone with nothing to give you privacy (Moris, 2016). In the castle you would have people that slept on the floor on straw, so the straw would get everywhere in the castle and would make a mess (The Age of Knights And Castles, 2011). In the medieval times you could also tell who were the rich and the poor. You could easily tell this by looking at the house that they lived in. if their house was dull and ragged, it was a poor person that lived in it. If it was made out of expensive material, then it was a wealthy person that lived in it (Smith,