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 Topic: Glossary
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Glossary - Punishments: The Dunking or Ducking Stool (1100 - 1800 AD)
Friday, October 08, 2004 - 11:17 PM (17362 Reads)
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 The "dunking stool", also known as a "ducking stool" or "diving chair", was used to identify witches and also serve as punishment for minor offenders, prostitutes and scolds. The dunking could last for an entire day or just a few seconds. In this article we'll explain how they were made and used and also find out about some similar devices including a most bizarre appearence by our much loved trebuchet...
Submitted by Aubergine
Note: Includes "cucking-stool", "cuck-stool", "trebucket", "tumbrels", "scold's carts", "gumstool" and "coqueen-stool". Edited to new "punishment article" format :)
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Nothing is more medieval than knights jousting in a tournament. Read on and explore the history and the implements of the joust!
To my big surprise the bakery next door one day closed for good and I found the remaining establishments performing quite a bit under par. So I decided to embark in to bread baking myself. Read on and learn to bake your own bread out of flour, water and salt (and a little butter). This is how bread baking worked for more than 5000 years and still does. All one needs is a little practice.... 
Here is the list of the English named greetings that can be heard when starting up Stronghold 1 and Stronghold Crusader.
Here is the list of the English named greetings and the few special greetings that may be triggered when starting Stronghold 2.
In this article we list some key dates from world history relating to battles and wars, dynasties, great kings, rulers and presidents, artists, composers, novelists, poets and playwrights.
The "stocks" were hinged timber devices used to lock someone's legs and/or arms in to a fixed position in order to hold them captive. The friendly locals would hurl abuse and often rotten animal parts at the offenders trapped in these devices in a spontaneous show of their "affection". In this article we'll be looking at how they were made and why they were used...
The "pillory" was an upgrade to the stocks and used two hinged timbers to lock the offenders' head and often their hands in position for all to see. They were primarily designed to humiliate gentlemen and aristocrats but were also used for lesser men. In this article we'll be looking at how they were made and why they were used...
Larnaca Castle was originally used to defend the Turkish harbour at Larnaca and was later used as a prison, a German outpost in Wolrd War I and even the British Administration. It now lies in the Greek half of Cyprus but is still surrounded by many Turkish buildings including the nearby mosque. Our tour of the castle will show you all the main features and also contains several exclusive videos for you to download.
The Crac des Chevaliers (an Arabic/French combination meaning "Castle of the Knights") was built at Qal'at al-Hisn by the Knights of St. John, who occupied it from 1142 until 1271 when it fell to the great Mamluk leader Sultan Baybars. At it's peak, the garrison at the Crac consisted of over 2000 men and it's extensive underground storerooms could have held provision enough for very long sieges.
Battlements were placed on top of curtain walls allowing troops to walk along them to attack the enemy and defend the walls...
Many early medieval castles used a raised mound of land, known as a Motte, and a wooden enclosure, known as a Bailey to provide a defensive position.
Earl Roger de Montgomery founded the first castle at Arundel on Christmas Day 1067. It was after King William had held his Christmas Court at Gloucester and awarded Montgomery the Earldom, that he ordered him to build a castle on the river Arun to protect the inland reaches.
The Quarterstaff is a physically demanding weapon, given that it is a staff of between seven and nine foot long. although the stage gladiators of the seventeen hundreds did use staffs of about six feet in length, as did the boy scouts. Many of these staffs were tipped with iron, to make them a more deadly weapon, and these were called tipstaffs.
In the hands of the English the bow had become, in the form of the longbow, the most deadly and formidable weapon of its time. Every English boy was trained to use it and was taught to bring every muscle of his body to bear upon it ... The result was that arrows were discharged with great rapidity and accuracy and with such strength that they were effective in the matter of penetration at astonishingly long range.
Toledo, one of the ancient cities of Spain, sits on a rocky promontory over the Tagus River. The entire urban area is a national monument.
This is an attempt to introduce the reader to Oakeshott's sword blade typology. Ewart Oakeshott is perhaps the most noted student of swords. In order to make his research easier, he divided the swords into types. In contrast to other typologies, like Petersen's Viking sword typology that only focuses on the hilt form, Oakeshott's typology concentrates on the blade and its function. His system makes it easier to date the swords, and coupled with his classifying of the hilt parts it become rather easy to tell the approximate age of a certain sword.
This is a collection of Stronghold and Warchest speech quotes in alphabetical order. The funniest 600 of both games were entered in to our "daily" castle quotes. If you're looking for a specific Stronghold or Warchest Quote, in here you will find it.
This is a collection of 385 Stronghold Crusader speech quotes in alphabetical order. The funniest 600 of both games were entered in to our "daily" castle quotes. If you're looking for a specific Crusader Quote, here you will find it.
Heart-shaped or double oval-shaped leather shield used by "jinets" in the Iberian light cavalry throughout Spain and Portugal. They were based on shields used by Muslim berbers.
