The Battle of Tours-Poitiers Revisited
What motivated the Muslims to move north of the Pyrenees? What do the Latin and Arabic sources reveal about what transpired in the course of the battle?
Warrior Geopolitics: Gladiator, Black Hawk Down and the Kingdom of Heaven
Ridley Scott’s three movies, “Gladiator”, “Black Hawk Down” and most recently “The Kingdom of Heaven” explore the morality and identity of warriors. They do so in exotic landscapes and settings that emphasize the confrontation with danger as external and frequently unknowable and political violence as something that has complicated geographies.
Feasting with “Kings” in an Ancient Democracy: On the Slavic Society of the Early Middle Ages (Sixth to Seventh Century A.D.)
Feasting with “Kings” in an Ancient Democracy:On the Slavic Society of the Early Middle Ages (Sixth to Seventh Century A.D.) Curta, Florin Essays…
A Military Revolution Reconsidered: The Case of the Burgundian State Under the Valois Dukes
A Military Revolution Reconsidered: The Case of the Burgundian State Under the Valois Dukes By David S. Bachrach Essays in Medieval Studies, Vol.…
‘Fit for the task’: equipment sizes and the transmission of military lore, sixth to tenth centuries
Fit for the task: equipment sizes and the transmission of military lore, sixth to tenth centuries By Timothy Dawson Byzantine and Modern Greek…
The Walpurgis Fechtbuch: An Inheritance of Constantinople?
The primacy of the Walpurgis Fechtbuch (Royal Armouries I.33) as the earliest surviving illuminated book giving instruction on individual combat has generated a great deal of discussion about why it was compiled, and where the techniques depicted came from.
English and Irish Medieval Fortified Ecclesiastical Structures and the Bishop’s Manor in Kilteasheen, Ireland
English and Irish Medieval Fortified Ecclesiastical Structures and the Bishop’s Manor in Kilteasheen, Ireland By Alex Helland BA Thesis, University of Wisconsin – La…
The strange death of King Harold II: Propaganda and the problem of legitimacy in the aftermath of the Battle of Hastings
How did King Harold II die at the Battle of Hastings? The question is simple enough and the answer is apparently well known.
Ayn Jalut: Mamluk Sucess or Mongol Failure?
Ayn Jalut: Mamluk Sucess or Mongol Failure? By John Masson Smith, Jr. Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, Vol. 44:2 (1984) Introduction: The battle of…
Medieval Warfare
Medieval warfare and military history were an important of medieval society. The development of military systems, the efforts to gather resources to support…
Medieval Italian Military And Defenses
Medieval Italian Military And Defenses Analysis of medieval military defenses in Tuscany and Northern Italy. Shot in 2009 in Lucca, Garfagnana, Venice, Florence,…
The Development of Battle Tactics in the Hundred Years War
By their very nature battles are ephemeral events, and historians have to rely upon largely subjective accounts in reconstructing them.
Medieval Siege Warfare: A Reconnaissance
The proper focus of medieval siege warfare and indeed of medieval warfare in general is the manner in which medieval polities developed their grand strategy or military policy in order to preserve, improve, and often expand these fortifications of Roman and even earlier origin in response to the threats posed by their adversaries.
The Military Revolution from a Medieval Perspective
The idea of a military revolution was introduced by Michael Roberts, who argued that the tactical reforms pioneered by the Dutch army at the end of the sixteenth century and perfected by the Swedish army under Gustavus Adolphus