... Was it for playing games on, training soldiers on, holding tournaments on, maybe even a garden for the guests of the castle? However if that is so, why use up so much space? This space could have been used for protecting the castle even more. The fact that it was built in a time of peace may be the reason why that is, but even so a few more defences would not go amiss. Even though, a historian studying castle building can learn a great deal from this source, how they placed the windows, the style of architecture used and also what they thought was priority to have in a castle at this time. Question 2a Why was the picture in source B published? The picture in source B (Ivan Lappers imaginary reconstruction of the great hall) was published in 1993. The reason why it was published I think was to give modern day ...

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