Sometimes it takes a village to raise a window. Between 2015 and 2017, skilled masons meticulously carved and beveled arches and four-lobed flourishes for a Gothic-style stone window frame in Guédelon ...

Empress Matilda (left) was the rightful heir to the throne of King Henry I, who died in 1135. But her cousin Stephen (right), seized the crown from her, setting off the two-decades-long civil war ...