Viking’s Weekly

What’s up in Early Medieval Reenactment Upcoming events: Wojna Wieków 2019 Krucza Bryła 2019 – Pakość Arundel Castle – 12,000 Years of History Wikinger Festival Damp 24./25.August 2019 Vikinglandsby Vendeltidsdagarna i Uppåkra Archeon Viking Festival Rassemblement Multi Epoques Herbéviller Military Odyssey – Eastern Warzone Weekend Mittelaltermarkt zur 777-Jahresfeier Tangstedt Fyrkat Wargame 2019 – There is…

Knight’s Weekly

What’s up in Middle Ages Reenactment Upcoming events:  England’s Medieval Festival Wojna Wieków 2019 Old Sarum Battle of Kenilworth Castle Słowianie i Templariusze. XIII Festyn Historyczny Obóz w Nowicach – 2019 Tournoi des Combes Festival médiéval Adélaïde et ses troubadours org Mairie Burlats Rassemblement Multi Epoques Herbéviller Loughrea Medieval Festival Just Out Festival Horsens Middelalderfestival…

19th Century Weekly

What’s up in Reenactment of 1789-1914 Upcoming events:  Confederate Living History Weekend at the Antietam National Battlefield Revolution on the Ohio Frontier Civil War Living History Reenactment at Fort Adams Life on Campaign, Summer Living History at Bentonville Battlefield Artillery Demonstrations at the Petersburg National Battlefield Event report: Galesburg Heritage Days 2019 Napoleonic Wars in…

Vikings Days in the Danish Canadian Museum

The two-day event featured a viking village, battle demonstrations, a feast and more. “Viking Days is all about where the Danish immigration began,” said Susan Hejduk, business manager at the museum. “Almost every Canadian can connect to that. For the majority of Canadians, somewhere in their history, there will be an immigration – somebody will…

Why battles could be so decisive in the Middle Ages by Georgios Theotokis

But what is it that makes a battle decisive? The answer is straightforward: impact! A decisive battle should have long-term socio-political implications between adversaries and profoundly affect the balance of power on more than just the local level. But it is a specific characteristic of (decisive) battles that makes them invaluable for historians to study, their rarity.…

The Late Medieval International System by Andrew Latham

The prevailing view has been the Middle Ages were an era of “feudal heteronomy”, radically distinct from the early modern international system that superseded it sometime between the mid-sixteenth and mid-seventeenth centuries.  According to this view, the late medieval order was not an international system, properly understood, for the simple reason that it did not…

Horse Armour in the Medieval Islamic Middle East

The earliest widespread use of horse armour appears to have been in Inner Asia, perhaps more specifically in Khwarazm. Thereafter horse armour became notably characteristic of Central and Inner Asia, not only amongst nomadic tribes but also amongst settled peoples such as the Turkish Uighurs of what is now called the Chinese autonomous region of…