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Jan 1, 1996 · One Room in a Castle: Letters and Stories from Spain, France and Greece [Karen Connelly] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers.
- Paperback
- Karen Connelly
- Casemate
- Place of Arms
- Undercroft
A casemate was originally a vaulted chamber usually constructed underneath the rampart. It was intended to be impenetrable and could be used for sheltering troops or stores.
The room in the castle called the Place of Arms was a large area in a covered way, where troops could assemble.
An undercroft is traditionally a cellar or storage room, often vaulted. While some were used as simple storerooms, others were rented out as shops. For example, the undercroft rooms at Myres Castle in Scotland circa 1300 were used as the medieval kitchen and a range of stores. The undercroft beneath the House of Lords in the Palace of Westminster i...
Aug 14, 2023 · One cannot talk about medieval rooms without starting with the great hall. It was the general living/drawing/meeting room equivalent of that era. It was used to host important meetings and events and was the one room of the castle that could be accessed by every single person who lived there.
A young Jewish woman fleeing the Nazis finds herself trapped in the basement of a French county château and struggles to survive. The film suffers from some near crippling faults having to do with the narrative structure of the basic story.
- Charles F. Cirgenski
- Charles F. Cirgenski
- John Flax, Jackelyn Gauci, Tim Lovelace
- John Flax, Jackelyn Gauci, Tim Lovelace
- Great Hall. The Great Hall was the main room of a castle, and the largest room – great halls could also be found throughout the medieval period in palaces and manor houses.
- Bed Chambers and the Solar. The private bed chambers of a medieval castle were typically accessed by a small passage at the top end of the great hall – often the bedrooms and living rooms of the lord and lady of the castle, and their close family or honoured guests, would be on the first floor of the structure.
- Toilets. An essential in any domestic environment, toilets in medieval castles were known by many names: ‘privy’, ‘draught’, ‘gong’, or perhaps most well-known, ‘garderobe’.
- Kitchens. Castle kitchens were separate from the great hall and other living quarters, primarily so that the noise and smoke from the kitchen did not reach residential parts of the castle.
A young Jewish woman fleeing the Nazis finds herself trapped in the basement of a French county château and struggles to survive. The film suffers from some near crippling faults having to do with the narrative structure of the basic story.
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