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The Regency of William the Marshal

British Medieval 21 Min Read

The trebuchet was first introduced to England in 1216 during the invasion by the future king Louis VIII of France. In 1225, King Henry III of England invited an artillery engineer named Jordan, with the illuminating nickname of the `Trebuchet Maker’ to construct a large number of these engines for the royal government. By the late 1220s, trebuchets were the…

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Medieval Military and Naval 1 Min Read

Foundations of Venetian Naval Strategy from Pietro II Orseolo to the Battle of Zonchio

Foundations of Venetian Naval Strategy from Pietro II Orseolo to the Battle of Zonchio 1000 – 1500 by John E. Dotson from Viator: Medieval and Renaissance Studies v. 32 (2001) For Venetians during the Middle Ages the sea was life. The prosperity, the very existence, of the Republic depended upon…

Medieval Military and Naval Ottoman 2 Min Read

Mamluk Studies Review

Mamluk Studies Review Mamluk Studies Review is a biannual refereed journal published by the Middle East Documentation Center devoted to the study of the Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt and Syria (648-922/1250-1517). It appears in January and July. The goals of Mamluk Studies Review are to take stock of scholarship devoted…

Medieval Military and Naval Ottoman 1 Min Read

Acta Viennensia Ottomanica

Acta Viennensia Ottomanica Edited by Markus Kohbach, Gisela Prochaska-Eisl, and Claudia Romer Vienna: Im Selbrstverlag des Instituts fur Orientalistik, 1999 A collection of over forty articles on the history of the Ottoman Empire, ranging from the medieval period to the 20th century. Most of the articles are in English, but…

Medieval Military and Naval 1 Min Read

Ships and Fleets in Anglo-French warfare, 1337-1360

Ships and Fleets in Anglo-French warfare, 1337-1360 By Timothy J. Runyan from: American Neptune v.46 (1986) The most consuming military and naval conflict of later medieval Europe was the Hundred Years’ War. Beginning in 1337 and continuing until 1453 this struggle involved most of the states of western Europe although…

Book Review Medieval Piracy 4 Min Read

Book: Medieval Ships and Warfare

Edited by Susan Rose, Open University, UK The International Library of Essays on Military History This collection of essays and articles from a wide range of journals is intended to make more accessible to students and scholars some of the most important writing in English in this field from the…

Book Review Medieval 11 Min Read

Book Review of War at Sea in the Middle Ages and Renaissance.

John B. Hattendorf, Richard W. Unger, eds. War at Sea in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Woodbridge and Rochester: Boydell Press, 2003. xiv + 276 pp. $85.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-85115-903-4. Reviewed by Marguerite Ragnow (Department of History, Center for Early Modern History, University of Minnesota)Published on H-Atlantic (June, 2004) Toward…

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The Mauryan Empire Military

Chandragupta governed a true monarchical imperial state. The king ruled with the help of a…

The Military of the Byzantines

Dominant military forces of the Middle East between the fourth and fifteenth centuries. At Manzikert…

Wars of Charlemagne

The composition and equipment of Charlemagne’s army was continuously evolving. Initially, the Carolingian Army was…

Japanese Siege Weapons

Early Fortifications Although fortifications were constructed in Japan prior to the feudal period, frequent conflicts…