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Medieval Warfare Magazine

Warfare in the age of kings and castles

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Editor-in-chief: Jasper Oorthuys Editor: Peter Konieczny Proofreader: Naomi Munts Image researcher: Alice Sullivan Design & Media: Christy Beall Design © 2020 Karwansaray Publishers Contributors: Javier Albarrán, Alfred J. Andrea, Alexander R. Bronda
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Marginalia
This issue examines the topic of ‘Holy Wars’, beginning with a piece from the highly-regarded historian Alfred J. Andrea. In recent years he has been working on religion and warfare from a world history perspective, and his piece here is reflective o
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Fathers And Sons At War
THE TWO BATTLES OF KŌNODAI The 1538 victor was Hōjō Ujitsuna, the second daimyo of the great Hōjō dynasty who were gradually extending their territories across the Kantō Plain, the area around modern Tokyo. At the First Battle of Kōnodai, Ujitsuna de
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A Good Military Leader
PERSPECTIVES FROM BYZANTINE MILITARY MANUALS Because the noun δύναμις (strength) has been associated with physical power since Homeric times, the defining features of the body of a commander have always been - instinctively - linked to imposing size,
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Fighting Forthe Faith
MEDIEVAL HOLY WARS AROUND THE WORLD Usually, but not necessarily, holy warriors worship a divine being or a pantheon of gods and goddesses. Usually, but not necessarily, they subscribe to authoritative dogmas that clearly distinguish between right be
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Women’s Jihad?
FEMALE WARRIORS IN EARLY ISLAM At the end of this scene, from the book Futūh al-Shām (The Conquests of Syria) of unknown author ship, we are introduced to the fearsome warrior, Khawla bint al-Azwar. She had accompanied the Muslim army and decided to
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Battle Of The Field Of Blood
“AS ONE MISFORTUNE OFTEN FOLLOWS A WORSE” Roger had assumed the position of regent for Bohemond II in 1112, as the prince was only a young child. It was Roger’s good fortune to arrive at a time when the govern ance of Aleppo, the nearest and most pow
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Not A Holy War
RELIGION IN THE NORMAN CONQUEST OF SICILY The fall of Sicily and the First Crusade could seem linked: in the ongoing debate on the antecedents of Christian war, the difficult conquest of a land that had been under Muslim control since the ninth centu
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How To Carry Out Jihad
CAMPAIGNING IN MEDIEVAL IBERIA The idea that one of the ruler’s duties was the defence of Islam and the fight against the enemies of God developed strongly in one of the most active frontiers of the Islamic world, Al-Andalus (Muslim Iberia). This obl
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The Oakeshott Typology
THE X TO XXII OF MEDIEVAL SWORDS Ronald Ewart Oakeshott was born in 1916. His uncle, Jeffery Farnol, a writer of historical fiction who collected ancient weapons, inspired his early interest in swords. Oakeshott was lucky to live in a time when, even
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In The Kingmaker’s Shadow
THE STORY OF JOHN NEVILLE, MARQUESS MONTAGU Montagu cut his teeth in warfare and politics in the early 1450s, but not in France. Instead, he waged his family’s private war for local dominance in the north. Only the Percys, headed by Henry, second Ear
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The Norman Knight
CHARGING AN ENEMY IN THE ELEVENTH CENTURY A part from northern France and the conquest of England, one could find Norman warriors fighting (and sometimes taking over) in Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Italy, the Holy Roman Empire, southern Italy, the Balk
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Beyond The Walls
WHAT WAS AROUND THE TOWER HOUSE? Consequently, I have tried to place them within wider contexts, not just examine their features and architecture in isolation. Today, the majority of the several thousand known examples from Ireland stand in isolation
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Fighting For The Divine
Sanctified Violence: Holy War in World History By Alfred J. Andrea and Andrew Holt Hackett Publishing, 2021 ISBN: 978-1624669613 Where Three Worlds Met: Sicily in the Early Medieval Mediterranean By Sarah Davis-Secord Cornell University Press, 2020 I

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