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Scope[edit]

This task force covers military history from roughly 500 to 1500. More specifically, its scope begins with the fall of the Roman Empire and ends just before the development of the rifle and the Age of Discovery. Although this period is generally regarded as an era of European history, other areas (such as the pre-Columbian empires, the expansion of Islam, the Mongol Empire, and so forth) are also welcome.

Events after c. 1500 are covered by the Early Modern warfare task force.

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Participants[edit]

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Adam Bishop (talk · contribs) (mostly crusades, some Byzantine Empire, France, and England)
Arunreginald (talk · contribs) (Battles of the Byzantine Empire, Crusades and the Muslim conquests)
Buistr (talk · contribs) (Armies of the Byzantine Empire)
Cplakidas (talk · contribs) (mostly late Roman/Byzantine Empire, and the peoples who interacted with them)
CsikosLo (talk · contribs) (Byzantine empire, medieval Germany and Hungary)
Dainomite (talk · contribs) (Interests include Normans, Vikings, Reconquista and associated subjects)
Elonka (talk · contribs) (Crusades, Knights Templar, Knights Hospitaller, other related orders)
Ghost Lourde (talk · contribs) (Migration era skirmishes/high middle ages conflicts, omnibus medieval weaponry/tactics interests)
Ghostexorcist (talk · contribs) (Primarily the First Crusade.)
Iazyges (talk · contribs) Mostly roman stuff.
JeBonSer (talk · contribs) (Europa!)
Kirill Lokshin (talk · contribs) (Mostly warfare among the Italian city-states)
Ktsquare (talk · contribs)
Llywrch (talk · contribs) (At the moment I'm working on Ethiopian topics, but I have resources for the period 350 - 700 for Europe & the Mediterranean region)
LordAmeth (talk · contribs) (Medieval/Feudal East Asia, particularly Japan. I am quite interested in medieval Europe, Britain in particular, but I do not feel I have the proper resources to contribute significantly there)
Monstrelet (talk · contribs) (Mainly western medieval history, especially 14th. to early 16th. centuries)
Niklas Feurstein (talk · contribs) (medieval weaponry)
Serial Number 54129 (talk · contribs) English medieval, particularly late.
Vami_IV (talk · contribs) (European Fortifications, anything you want to throw at me)

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Article statistics[edit]

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A list of the top 500 most popular articles within our scope, as well as the number of page views each article received over the past month, can be found here.

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GA	425
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C	2,026	CL	21
Start	3,868	List	93
Stub	1,052
Total	8,253	Total	120
Other pages
Category		1,310
Disambig		39
Draft		9
File		23
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Project		3
Redirect		127
SIA		1
Template		159
User		0
Total		1,671
Unassessed		0
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ω	37,232	Ω	4.447

Open tasks[edit]

Attention needed: ...to referencing and citation (4,705) • ...to coverage and accuracy (4,050) • ...to structure (1,148) • ...to grammar (215) • ...to supporting materials (1,640)
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Requested articles: Battle of Sherston • Byzantine-Latin Wars (currently redirect) • Rus'-Cuman wars • Recapture of Constantinople (1261) (currently redirect) • Thibaut, Seigneur de Montmorency • Gaston de Chanmont • Hugues de Chanmont • Simon de Neauphle-le-Chateau • Dreux IV de Mello • Gilles II de Trasignies • Raoul II de Clermin • Robert Morean de Fiennes
Expansion needed: Battle of Ihtiman • Encastellation • Battle of Maritsa • Medieval Wars • Humbert V de Beaujeu • Siege of Chandax • Hvitserk • Tripartite Struggle • Fall of Arsuf • Fall of Caesarea • Fall of Haifa (1265) • Nicholas de la Beche
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Articles for deletion

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Resources[edit]

General studies of medieval warfare[edit]

Bachrach, Bernard S.; Bachrach, David S. (2017). Warfare in Medieval Europe c.400-c.1453. Abingdon and New York: Routledge. ISBN 9781138887664.
Bennett, Matthew (2009). The Medieval World at War. London: Thames & Hudson. ISBN 9780500251560.
Bennett, Matthew; Nicholas Hooper (1996). Cambridge Atlas of Warfare: The Middle Ages 768-1487. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0521440493.
Bennett, Matthew; Jim Bradbury; Kelly DeVries; Iain Dickie; Phyllis Jestice (2005). Fighting Techniques of the Medieval World. Thomas Dunne. ISBN 978-0-312-34820-5.
Carey, Brian Todd; Joshua B. Allfree; John Cairns (2006). Warfare in the Medieval World. Barnsley: Pen & Sword. ISBN 9781844153398.
Contamine, Philippe (1984). War in the Middle Ages. Oxford: Blackwell. ISBN 0631131426.
Delbrück, Hans (1990). History of the Art of War vol III; The Middle Ages. Translated by Walter J. Renfroe. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood. ISBN 0803265859.
France, John (1999). Western Warfare in the Age of the Crusades 1000-1300. London: UCL Press. ISBN 1857284674.
Keen, Maurice (1999). Medieval Warfare: A History. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0199690901.
Nicholson, Helen (2004). Medieval Warfare. Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan. ISBN 0-333-76331-9.
Prestwich, Michael (1996) Armies and Warfare in the Middle Ages: The English Experience, New Haven: Yale University Press ISBN 0-300-07663-0
Rogers, Clifford (2007). Soldiers' Lives Through History : The Middle Ages. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. ISBN 978-0313333507.
Verbruggen, J.F. (1997). The Art of Warfare in Western Europe during the Middle Ages (2nd. ed.). Woodbridge: Boydell Press. ISBN 0851156304.

Studies of specific subjects[edit]

Wars and campaigns[edit]

Burne, A.H. (1991) [1956]. The Agincourt War. London: Greenhill Books. ISBN 1853670871.
Burne, A.H. (1991) [1955]. The Crecy War. London: Greenhill Books. ISBN 1853670812.
Norwich, John Julius. A History of Venice. New York: Vintage Books, 1989. ISBN 0679721975.
Phillips, Charles and Alan Axelrod. Encyclopedia of Wars. 3 vols. New York: Facts on File, 2005. ISBN 0816028516.
Taylor, Frederick Lewis. The Art of War in Italy, 1494-1529. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1973. ISBN 0837150256.
Haldon, John. The Byzantine Wars. Stroud: Tempus Publishing, 2000. ISBN 0752417959.

Fitz, Francisco García; Monteiro, João Gouveia, eds. (2018). War in the Iberian Peninsular 700-1600. Themes in Medieval and Early Modern History. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. ISBN 9780815399995.
Madden - The Black Prince at War: The Anatomy of a Chevauchée Includes much on organisation and logistics.

Technology[edit]

Edge, David; John Miles Paddock (1993) [1988]. Arms & Armor of the Medieval Knight (Crescent Books reprint ed.). New York: Crescent Books. ISBN 0-517-10319-2.
Smith, Robert; Kelly DeVries (2005). The Artillery of the Dukes of Burgundy 1363 - 1477. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell & Brewer. ISBN 1843831627.
Strickland, Matthew; Hardy,Robert (2005). The Great Warbow. Stroud: Sutton. ISBN 0750931671
DeVries, Kelly; Smith, Robert (2012). Medieval Military Technology (2nd ed.). Toronto: University of Toronto Press. ISBN 9781442604971.
Ellis-Gorman, Stuart (2022). The Medieval Crossbow. Barnsley: Pen & Sword Military. ISBN 978-152-678953-2.

Mercenaries[edit]

Caferro, William. John Hawkwood: An English Mercenary in Fourteenth-century Italy. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. ISBN 978-0801883231
Fowler, Kenneth (2001). Medieval Mercenaries: Vol. I The Great Companies. Oxford: Blackwell. ISBN 0-631-15886-3.
Mallet, Michael: Mercenaries and their Masters, Bodley Head, London, 1974 ISBN 0370105028

Chivalry[edit]

Keen, Maurice (2005) [1984]. Chivalry. Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-10767-6.
Kaeuper, Richard (2016). Medieval Chivalry. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521137959.

Naval warfare[edit]

Rose, Susan (2013). England's Medieval Navy 1066-1509. Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press. ISBN 9780773543225.
Gorski, R (2012). Roles of the Sea in Medieval England. Boydell Press. ISBN 978-1843837015.
Nicolas, Sir N.H. (1847). A History of the Royal Navy: 1327-1422. R. Bentley. pp. 306–322. ISBN 9781346331737.
Stanton, Charles D (2015). Medieval Maritime Warfare. Pen and Sword. ISBN 9781473856431.

Crusades[edit]

Fortifications[edit]

Downloadable public domain books[edit]

Author	Title and link
Curry, Anne	The Hundred Years' War
Davis, H.W.C.	Medieval Europe
Gibbon, Edward	Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol. 1, Vol. 2, Vol. 3, Vol. 4, Vol. 5, Vol. 6
Giles, J.A.	History of the Britons
Gordon, Irwin Leslie	Who Was Who: 5000 BC - 1914 Biographical Dictionary of the Famous and Those Who Wanted to Be
Grattan, Thomas Coley	Holland: The History of the Netherlands
Green, John Richard	History of the English People Vol. 1 449 - 1216, Vol. 2 1216 - 1400
Green, Mrs. J.R.	Henry the Second
Guizot, François Pierre Guillaume	A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times Vol. 1, Vol. 2, Vol. 3, Vol. 4, Vol. 5, Vol. 6
Haaren, John Henry and Poland, A.B.	Famous Men of the Middle Ages
Holinshed, Raphael	The Historie of England Vol. 1, Vol. 2, Vol. 3, Vol. 4, Vol. 5, Vol. 6, Vol. 7, Vol. 8
Lacroix, Paul	Manners, Custom and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period
Lingard, John	The History of England
Macaulay, T.B.	History of England
Newhall, Richard Ager	English conquest of Normandy, 1416-1424, a study in fifteenth century warfare
Pollard, A.F.	The History of England: A Study in Political Evolution
Power, Eileen Edna	Medieval People
Wylie, James Hamilton	THE REIGN OF HENRY THE FIFTH Vol II
Yonge, Charlotte Mary	History of France

Other[edit]

De Re Militari Major medieval military history portal, with source extracts, book reviews and extensive scholarly articles
Chronique.com Manuscript collections about fifteenth century chivalry
Internet Medieval Sourcebook of Fordham University
Digital Collection of the University of Wisconsin, notable for the University of Wisconsin History of the Crusades
Helmet Collectors Webpages a linkfarm for information about helmets
Wikimedia Commons illuminated manuscripts (navigate the area for more public domain images)
Manuscript Miniatures An image collection of manuscript miniatures depicting armoured figures from the medieval period created before 1450 in countries across Europe.

Armenia[edit]

Vahan Kurkjian (1958) A History of Armenia, Armenian General Benevolent Union of America, New York, OCLC 889896040.
Armenian Historical Sources