Medieval Weaponry
The Tale of the Sword
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008Over the next few weeks, I’ll be briefly covering the histories of medieval weaponry; from their humble origins as tools to their implementations as weapons of war, I’m going to address one weapon type in each article.
This week, I’m going to cover the history of what is perhaps the most common and recognizable of all […]
The Art of Throwing Rocks
Monday, April 7th, 2008Perhaps one of the more famous aspects of life in Medieval Europe was war. The Middle Ages was unable to pass even a decade without one bloody conflict or another raging throughout Europe. In fact, war permeated every aspect of medieval society so deeply that it affected everything from poetry and writing to the advance […]