The book’s clout is in the description of bloody crimes and punishments portrayed in the ... 2012 print issue under the headline: The medieval church’s ideological warfare. Advertisement.

How realistic are the famous battles scenes from 'Lord of the Rings'? Warfare experts break down what's realistic and what's pure fantasy.

In his book, Payne-Gallwey cited numerous medieval references “to the practice of throwing dead horses into a besieged town with a view to causing a pestilence therein.” The work helped establish the ...

Constructing Medieval Battle Narratives. As its title implies, this is a collection of papers, which were presented at three military history conferences on Writing Battles.These academic articles aim ...

Dr. Fulton (University of British Columbia), a specialist on medieval military practice, gives us a comprehensive survey of siege operations during Crusades, from the Christian capture of Nicaea in ...

It wasn't until the post-medieval period (1500-1650 CE) that the average height of horses became significantly taller, approaching that of modern-day working horses.

AMMAN — In mediaeval warfare, sieges of fortified cities were conducted in accordance with rules taken from five verses in the book of Deuteronomy, according to Thomas Brosset from Lancaster ...

In their book "The myth of the mangonel: torsion artillery in the Middle Ages," Jean Liebel estimated that the springald related to the Avignon papacy cost six months of unskilled laborer wages.

Your job in Grand Ages: Medieval is basically a glorified course in Imperial Accounting 101—balance the books, learn about supply and demand and trade networks, figure out how to cycle food and ...