MEDIEVAL WARFARE

Arms, Armor, and Training

Major weapons of the knight:
1.  Sword
2.  Lance
3.  Dagger
Types of sword:
1.  Standard Sword
2.  Broadsword
3.  Longsword
4.  Falchion
Pilum
Battleaxe
1.  Short handled axe fit for use from horseback (ressembled francisca)
2.  Long handled axe of footsoldiers such as the huscarls (housecarls)
Mace
War hammer
Morningstar
Battle flail (Ball and chain)
King Harold Godwinson
Emperor Constantine
Just War
Advocatus
Warrior churchman
Archbishop Turpin (Song of Roland)
Churchman's use of club (a legalism)
Armor:
1.  Shield
2.  Body armor
Forms of Armor:
1.  Leather
2.  Scale and Ring
3.  Mail (often called chain mail)
4.  Plate
Nasal
Pot helm
Gambeson
Sword and buckler
New missile weapons:
1.  Crossbow
2.  English longbow
bolt or quarrel
Second Lateran Council (1139)
Genoa
Welch bow
Yew wood (used for English bows)
Hundred Years War (1337-1453)
Mock Combat:
1.  Joust (single combat)
2.  Tournament (also called a melee) (Group combat)
King Henry II of France (d. 1559)
Andreas Vesalius
Hunting as a form of Training
Frederick II
On the Art of Hunting with Falcons
Poaching
Robin Hood