[akozak]

I love this. Naive feudal lords as the historical equivalent to high net worth preppers.

[eproxus]

What could be more prepping than building a whole stone castle? It’s the historical equivalent of a bunker for most part of modern (and ancient) history

[smsm42]

Building castles to cover captured terrain was pretty common (unless of course there already was one around, in which case you besiege and take it, if you can). Of course, building a stone ond rakes time, so they'd build a temp one first, and then, ic theh manage to keep the territory, update it. So if it's prepping, it's a very common and prudenf version of it.