Medieval Warfare Magazine

Editor-in-chief: Jasper Oorthuys Editor: Peter Konieczny Assistant editor: Alice Sullivan Proofreader: Naomi Munts Design & media: Christy Beall Design © 2020 Karwansaray Publishers Contributors: Nancy Marie Brown, Ruth R. Brown, Danièle Cybulski, Jo

When I first got my hands on Jean de Bueil’s Le Jouvencel, wonderfully translated by Craig Taylor and Jane H.M. Taylor, I realized that we would have to do an issue featuring this fifteenth-century work. For fans of medieval military history, this wo

I do not know her name, so I have given her one: I call her Hervor. Other famous skeletons have names. Think of Lucy the Australopithecus, named for a Beatles song, and Ötzi the Iceman, named for the valley he was found in. I could have named her Lag

The two soldiers on the left are on their knees with their hands raised, possibly in prayer. They are wearing conical helmets with nose guards and mail coifs exactly like those depicted on the Bayeux Tapestry. They also appear to be wearing mail coat

The Carolingian Empire By Heinrich Fichtenau ISBN: 978-0802063670 University of Toronto Press (1978) One effect of this was to produce an enormous interest in the reign of Charlemagne (768-814), who seemed to have restored order from the chaos of the

Jean de Bueil: Le Jouvencel Translated by Craig Taylor and Jane H M Taylor Boydell Press, 2020 ISBN: 978-1783275403 The Book of Geoffroi de Charny with the Livre Charny By Ian Wilson and Nigel Bryant Boydell Press, 2021 ISBN: 978-1783275854 The Chron