Medieval Warfare Blog

The Mary Rose

This entry was posted on May 30, 2013 by dirk.

Granted, the topic of this blog might be more suitable for a magazine on early modern warfare. Still, the term ‘medieval’ has only relatively recently... Read more

Watching history happen

This entry was posted on May 16, 2013 by Misc Authors.

You don’t have to go far in watching films set in medieval times to encounter the depiction of warfare; whether warfare is central to the... Read more

Prize-winning Museum

This entry was posted on May 8, 2013 by dirk.

As mentioned in a facebook post from a few weeks back, as well as in the news section of Medieval Warfare III.3, the Higgins Armory... Read more

Recycling in Rome

This entry was posted on April 27, 2013 by dirk.

In one of my blogs from a few weeks back, I spoke of several ancient or medieval monuments in Rome which are preserved largely intact... Read more

The commander's black steed

This entry was posted on April 11, 2013 by Misc Authors.

The life and death of Swiss reformer Huldrych Zwingli is covered in Medieval Warfare magazine III-2 as a special case of that issue’s theme ‘Warrior bishops... Read more

Sand of time: Rome

This entry was posted on April 6, 2013 by dirk.

No, this is not about the popular Prince of Persia game- and movie franchise. Rather, it is about the condition in which historical monuments are... Read more

Zwingli on Leadership

This entry was posted on April 4, 2013 by Misc Authors.

The Swiss reformer Huldrych Zwingli (1484-1531) is perhaps not the most obvious candidate for the  Medieval Warfare issue III-2   theme on ‘Warrior bishops’ as he was... Read more

Working in the shadow of history

This entry was posted on March 28, 2013 by dirk.

After shamelessly having praised my home-town of Nijmegen in my previous blog, I think it’s time to give you a short introduction to an even... Read more

Limbourg brothers

This entry was posted on March 21, 2013 by dirk.

In one of the Facebook posts written by Jean-Claude Brunner, Jean-Claude refers to the catalogue entitled ‘The Art of Illumination: The Limbourg Brothers and the... Read more

Rumours from the East

This entry was posted on March 13, 2013 by dirk.

Word hasn’t spread far and wide yet, but a few of you might have already come across the word ‘Special’ in one of our previous... Read more