Medieval Warfare Magazine

One topic much discussed by military historians is that of the influence of technological change on warfare. How much do new inventions or improvements to weapons or other equipment change how war is fought? It is a topic that pertains very much to t

One of the key contributors to the debate around the history of technology was Melvin Kranzberg. In 1986 he came up with these ‘six laws of technology’: 1. Technology is neither good nor bad, nor is it neutral. 2. Invention is the mother of necessity

Besides the Stirrup Thesis, Medieval Technology and Social Change included two other major ideas. First, he believed an agricultural revolution took place during the eighth and ninth centuries due to the introduction of the heavy plow and a three-fie

The town had a large garrison, and it was fortified with stone walls encircled with two ditches and surrounded by miles of marshland. Rather than risk an assault, the English settled in for a lengthy siege, blockading the settlement by both land and

The Picatrix even offers ways to pray to each of the planets, so that one could gain their favour. The act of praying to Mars is quite elaborate – the person must first pick a favourable time and go to a remote place. He must be wearing all red cloth

Hasselt, a picturesque town in the north of the Netherlands, has been a city since 1227. It is now stranded inland, but in the Middle Ages it was a port on a tributary of the Ijssel River, within easy reach of the sea, and important enough to be a me

The most important factor shaping the fate of this small but rather diverse region was its strategic position at the intersection of important communication routes connecting Central Europe with the Balkans, the Apennine Peninsula, and the Pannonian

By Kelly DeVries and Kay Smith University of Toronto Press, 2012 ISBN: 978-1442604971 Edited by Leo Marx and Merritt Roe Smith MIT Press, 1994 ISBN: 978-0262691673 By Bert S. Hall The John Hopkins University Press, 1997 ISBN: 0-8018-5531-4 By Dan Spe