From Queen to Captive – Witchcraft, Women and Power
Speaking with Shadows
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What Would It Have Been Like for a Prisoner?
It was a place that had short and decisive periods of military occupation and purpose intertwined with long periods of peace and calm when the castle was either occupied or maybe abandoned at various times. I think it would have been somewhere which you would have poured down reputedly boiling oil, but people tell me it was more likely to be water to deter your would be assailant from entering the castle. So there's a lot of life in the rest of the castle. And and what would life have been like for joan in the keep? Like wod she had been allowed to leave that and go into the other into the great hall and sit by the fire? Would she' be stuck in her little
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