What were a medieval castles living quarters?
Actually, they were big cold rooms. When castles were first built they had one purpose and that was defense. People didn’t have much privacy nor did they expect it so they mainly did everything in the great hall. Eventually individual rooms were built, but even these were cold and uncomfortable. One reason the great hall was used so much that is where the fire place was and usually that was the only heat source. We have a romantic view of castles, but it wasn’t until much later that they began to have the opulent furniture and beautiful things.
