Medieval Fort Building 101

You can read more about this topic in the article “The Costs of Fortress Construction in Tenth-Century Germany: The Case of Hildagsburg,” by Bernard Bachrach and David Bachrach, which was published in Viator, Vol.45:3 (2014).

Both Bernard and David Bachrach are leading historians of medieval warfare We interviewed this father-son duo in 2010:

16th century stonemason at work