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How to Build a Medieval Castle
Why are archaeologists constructing a thirteenth-century fortress in the forests of France?
Valérie Lachény, Guédelon’s master painter, decorated linen canvases with an eye-catching design of golden oak leaves ensconced in maroon semicircles—a pattern inspired by twelfth-century stained glass at Strasbourg Cathedral in northeastern France. Around images of angels, saints, and Adam and Eve, medieval masters enlivened the walls with bright orange flowers, slate-blue stars, and unruly golden vines, motifs that inspired Lachény’s decoration of the Great Hall’s antechamber. A huge treadmill powered by pairs of workers who trudge inside it drives a pulley that lifts stone blocks and mortar up to the parapet of the castle’s curtain wall.In the past decade, as Guédelon has evolved with endeavors such as the mill, more scientists have come to see and hear all the commotion.
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