New events and unusual visits to the castle
Thematic visits «Chateaux Builders and Siege Machines», followed by a trip-shooting demonstration on the weekend programme. Lecture with historian Nicolas Savy on Saturday.
17 et 18 septembre 2022Passat
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Thematic visits «Chateaux Builders and Siege Machines», followed by a trip-shooting demonstration on the weekend programme. Lecture with historian Nicolas Savy on Saturday.
- Thematic visits followed by a trip shot
«Castles and Siege Machinery Builders»
Discovering the secrets and construction methods used in the Middle Ages. The visit will be followed by a trebuchet shooting demonstration with a 1/3 scale machine. At 11h - 12h - 15h - 16h - 17h. - Meeting with historian Nicolas Savy
Lecture of 1h, followed by a signing session. Saturday at 2:30 pm.
On the occasion of the release of his latest work, Les cavaliers de l'apocalypse: La guerrlla anglaise en Languedoc, Auvergne et Limousin (1369-1393), historian Nicolas Savy, a specialist in the Hundred Years War, invites you to explore the great era of the famous «highway».
They were the embodiment of the «horsemen of the apocalypse». With this in mind, Nicolas Savy offers another reading of the tactical deployment of these troops, who have become professionals of war.
What role did the castle of Castelnaud play at that time? And its captain nicknamed «the Black Page»? By what stratagem did the local populations submit to these bands of truckers who sat for several decades in the fortress? Nicolas Savy tells us about slices of life lived during this famous conflict that made the Périgord one of the major stakes of the confrontation between France and England.
Don’t miss: What’s new in 2022
- a new war machine: the ball!
- two new films in the museum’s itinerary.