Not being able to live in real castles, nevertheless, the owners of simpler medieval houses built them in such a way that in these houses it was possible to safely hide from the outside world. As the French historian E. Faral wrote: To be seen in the Middle Ages meant to lose freedom. In other words, the house of a medieval peasant, as well as a medieval city dweller (and up to the 15th century, medieval town and village houses were practically the same) was intended, first of all, to hide the owners from prying eyes.