Siege Warfare

Professor Jeremy Black talks with Graham Stewart about the defence and capture of walled cities and castles


Siege warfare was the most common form of warfare in medieval Europe. In this edition of Black’s History Week, Professor Jeremy Black, author of Forts and Fortifications and Siegecraft, talks about defending and capturing walled cities and castles with The Critic‘s deputy editor, Graham Stewart.

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