Artisans at Guédelon in Burgundy are building a castle the medieval way
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It’s hard to ignore a good castle. Huge things, rising up out of impressive land works – towering, powerful, impenetrable links to a past viewed through a filter of legends, Lego models and Monty Python movies. For many of us, castles are the stu of the childhood stories that first awakened a fascination with history. Castles have been the setting for so many of the greatest stories in history: from the Norman invasion, through the crusades to the Hundred Years War, the warring factions in Britain and beyond have focused on these fortresses. So this issue, we’ve put together a series of features exploring their history.
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