List of medieval weapons
The following is a list of Wikipedia articles on types of weapons that were in use during the Middle Ages (roughly between the mid 1st to mid 2nd millennia AD).
Swords
Swords can be single or double-bladed edges. The blade can be straight or curved.
- Arming sword
- Broadsword
- Claymore
- Falchion
- Katana
- Longsword
- Rapier
- Sabre
- Shortsword
- Ulfberht
- Zweihander
Blunt or cleaving weapons
- Battle axe
- Club
- Flail
- Mace
- Flanged mace
- Pernach
- Shestopyor
- Maul
- Morning star
- Quarterstaff
- War hammer
- Bec de Corbin
- Horseman's pick
- Bludgeon
Spear and other polearm and poleaxe weapons
- Bardiche
- Bill
- Glaive
- Guisarme
- Halberd
- Lance
- Lochaber Axe
- Lucerne hammer
- Man catcher
- Military fork
- Partisan
- Pike
- Plançon a picot
- Ranseur
- Sovnya
- Spetum
- Swordstaff
- Voulge
- War-scythe
- War hammer
Ranged
- Bow
- Crossbow
- Sling
- Throwing weapons
- Chakram
- Culverin
- Hand cannon
- Musket
- Throwing Spear
- Shuriken
Siege weapons
Staff Sling
Warships
- Caravel
- Carrack
- Cog
- Fire ship
- Galleon
- Galley
- Junk
- Longship
- Lou chuan (castle ship)
- Qiao chuan (bridge ship)
Fortification
Medieval fortifications also developed in connection with the weapons that opposed them.
- Bailey
- Battlement
- Barbican
- Castle
- Citadel
- City wall
- Pitch Ditch
- Curtain wall
- Drawbridge
- Fortified tower
- Gate
- Keep
- Moat
- Motte-and-bailey
- Murder-hole
- Palisade
- Portcullis
See also
External links
References
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