Medieval Warfare Magazine

Editor-in-chief: Jasper Oorthuys Editor: Alice Isabella Sullivan Image research: Lauren van Zoonen Design & media: Christy Beall Artwork advisers: Robert W. Jones (Advanced Studies in England, Franklin and Marshall College), Robert C. Woosnam-Savage

The Benedictines were the most influential and widespread monastic religious order in the Middle Ages. They followed the rules set out by Saint Benedict of Nursia (ca. 480–547), who was a Christian monk and theologian regarded as the founder of the B

The Battle of Salado in 1340 was the penultimate major battle of the reconquest of Spain. The King of Castile, Alfonso XI, leading a crusade in which Portugal also took part, destroyed the armies of the King of Granada and the Marinids of Fez. The ba

Benedictine monasteries made some of the most beautiful books of the Middle Ages. In their early centuries, their communities held a virtual monopoly on the collection and circulation of books, which brought into their precincts scribes, artists, and

God is often referred to in the Quran as Rab al-Alamin, which means the Lord of the worlds, encompassing all possible worlds and universes that could exist, including that of the humans and the djinn. The Quran also often mentions humans and djinn to

This was especially true in the sixteenth-century after China had effectively forbidden legitimate trade with Japan following the violent rampages of opposing groups of Japanese tribute-traders during the Ningbo Incident of 1523. The situation was fu

ISBN: 978-1641893916 ARC Humanities Press | Past Imperfect, 2022 $17.95 (paperback) www.arc-humanities.org Andrew Schell's Beowulf: A Poem is the kind of book that fans of the poem have long needed. Beyond the other specialties and disciplines that i

By Saint Benedict, Abbot of Monte Cassino Translated by Leonard J. Doyle The Liturgical Press, 1948 https://bit.ly/41GMsy4 By Katie Ann-Marie Bugyis Oxford University Press, 2019 ISBN: 978-0190851286 By James G. Clark Boydell Press, 2011 ISBN: 978-18