Not just a King's ransom: war was a money-spinner for the rank-and-file soldier in the Late Middle Ages. A historian has found that the practice of ransom was widespread among all soldiers during ...

One thinks of the Middle Ages as a time when peasants rarely moved more than a few miles from their huts or monks from their monasteries—when people generally, other than perhaps the well-to-do ...

Middle Ages: What are the unusual weapons used in the middle ages? History of Europe : How did medieval soldiers find the privacy and time to urinate/defecate during battle? Tweet Share Share Comment ...

Another theory points to the Middle Ages, when knights raised the cover of their helmets to identify themselves as friendly. In the 1600’s, the British started to salute with their hats. Raising ...

Yet, the European Middle Ages — a period spanning more than 1,000 years — was much richer (and weirder) than even some of the best fiction or political spin. Comments. Newsletter Daily.

Indeed, the Mongols, the military superpower of the Middle Ages, as it is put by Stephen Morillo, the author ... $32.50), Paul Scharre, a former soldier who is now the director of studies at the ...