We all know there are two main types of castles: those with MACHICOLATIONS and those without :P

Shad: How many types of castles are there?

I tend to forget that most castles weren't massive. Very few were, but most were made to shelter a smaller army from a bigger army.

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Shad is talking about castles. Feels good man.

Interestingly, in German castle typology, it is all about the location of a castle. Whether it is on a hill, a ridge, a slope, a plain, etc. And there is always a major emphasis on a building, that Shad rarely, rarely mentions, the well or the cistern, and how much of a burden it is to construct in such a location.

I like your approach of defining castles according to their architecture. I am from Germany, where we have the "Deutsche Burgenvereinigung" (German Castles Organization) which is the foremost authority on castles and research related to castles in Germany. I am unsure if the English speaking world has any similar organizations. The "Burgenvereinigung " has published a series of books in 1999 which collects all the existing knowledge about castles in central Europe to that date. The books include a list of classifications of castles, but rather than taking a primarily architectural approach, they went with topography first. This is the usual approach of classifying castles in Germany.

Video I'd like to see: Castles and tunneling.

In Germany multi-warded castles are called Abschnittsburgen. A castle made out of sections.

Great content. As a german i like your distinction between "Burg" (fortified castle) and "Schloss" (unfortified castle), since i always wondered, why they are the same in english.

In Minecraft, l tend to try and build enclosed castles. But now, I think I’m going to expand my repertoire. Thanks for the inspiration Shad! This has earned you a sub

In Czech, we have four words for castles. "Hradiště" (an early medieval type of castle with several walls and usually a small "town" within the outer wall), "tvrz" (also an early medieval castle, but small with one wall), "hrad" (medieval castle), and "zámek" (a castle-like unfortified building).

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Man, it feels like ages since you last made a castle video!

Man, this was so interesting. Loved it!

There are 2 types of castles. The one with machicolations and failures.

You should make a video about different styles of castles, like how a Bohemian castle will look different from a castle you'd find in Britain.

I would use the terms “serial” “parallel” and “nested” for arrangements of multiple wards, since the term “poly-warded” gives no indication that concentric castles wouldn’t count as a sub-type under your system. Bailies are thus “nested” if the inner ward is fully enclosed by and detatched from the outer ward; “arranged in series” or “serial” when you must go through one to get to the other, but aren’t nested, and in parallel if there are multiple on the same “level” of penetration into the castle’s defense just to make things more manageable if a section of wall gets breached. You could actually make a simple diagram that uses symbolic operators for these three to fully describe a castle’s overall defensive scheme, since the keep of “enclosed castle” can be thought of the same way as the next bailey inward on a nested arrangement, and a “linked” castle can be thought of the same way as the next bailey inward on a serial arrangement.

Predjama castle is pronounced predyama, and it means In-front-of-a-cave castle :) literally built in front of a cave entrance, through which they smuggled food in when under siege. Wish you could do an episode on it, it has a great story. It's my favourite castle in Slovenia.

I see Shad has given up on restraint and decided to invent the scientific field of Castle Taxonomy.