Engineering:List of medieval weapons

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This is a list of weapons that were used during the medieval period. Each weapon is organized according to their purpose in battle.

Offensive weapons

Melee weapons

Sword and hilt weapons

Swords can have single or double bladed edges or even edgeless. The blade can be curved or straight.

  • Arming sword
  • Dagger
  • Estoc
  • Falchion
  • Katana
  • Knife
  • Longsword
  • Messer
  • Rapier
  • Sabre or Saber (Most sabers belong to the renaissance period, but some sabers can be found in the late medieval period)
  • Shortsword
  • Ulfberht (Frankish)

Spears and polearms

Ranged weapons

Siege weapons

Warships

Animals in war

  • Camels in warfare
  • Dogs in warfare
  • Elephants in warfare
  • Horses in warfare
    • Courser
    • Destrier
    • Rouncey

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Γεώργιος Ηλιόπουλος (Georgios Iliopoulos), "Η χαμένη πυραυλική τεχνολογία των αρχαίων Ελλήνων" (The lost missile technology of the ancient Greeks), Ιχώρ (Ihor), 27, page 12-13, Greece, 2002.
  2. ↑ Γεώργιος Ηλιόπουλος (Georgios Iliopoulos), "Η χαμένη πυραυλική τεχνολογία των αρχαίων Ελλήνων" (The lost missile technology of the ancient Greeks), Ιχώρ (Ihor), 27, page 13, Greece, 2002.



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