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Medieval Warfare Blog
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How Well Do You Know the Vikings?
This entry was posted on March 2, 2017.
Here are ten questions to challenge your knowledge of the Vikings and the Norse world. Read more -
Top 10 Battles of the Fifth Century
This entry was posted on February 2, 2017.
Here is our list of ten most important battles of the fifth century. 1. Battle of Châlons (451) A medieval illustration of the Battle of... Read more -
A Chinese Invasion of Korea in 645
This entry was posted on January 26, 2017.
China and Korea have a long history with each other - often involving conflict, but also with trade and cultural exchange. This is reflected in... Read more -
Why The Gunpowder Age is a must-read
This entry was posted on January 19, 2017.
Tonio Andrade’s The Gunpowder Age: China, Military Innovation, and the Rise of the West in World History has been named one of the winners of... Read more -
The ‘Everlasting Fighting’ between Elephants and Dragons
This entry was posted on January 12, 2017.
A quick look at medieval illustrations of elephants reveals that they are often depicted in combat with dragons. The serpent is shown having wrapped its... Read more -
The Funny Condottieri
This entry was posted on January 2, 2017.
Italian warfare during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries was often dominated by mercenary groups known as condottieri. Armies of these soldiers roamed throughout the city... Read more -
The Ideal Knight
This entry was posted on December 29, 2016.
What are the characteristics of an ideal knight? It would be a hard question to answer, even if you lived in the Middle Ages, as... Read more -
Three Tales of the Templars, by Jacques de Vitry
This entry was posted on December 23, 2016.
As the fame of the Knights Templar grew in Europe during the twelfth and thirteenth-centuries, countless stories must have been told about their exploits. Few... Read more -
The Battle of Frankenhausen
This entry was posted on December 21, 2016.
One of the key battles of the German Peasants’ Revolt took place in central town of Frankenhausen. That region had seen a large outbreak of... Read more -
Stupid Reasons to Go to War in the Middle Ages
This entry was posted on December 15, 2016.
“Our greatest conflicts have ridiculous origins and causes. Just think how our last duke of Burgundy ruined himself by a quarrel over a cartload of... Read more
