Most soldiers never fought the way films show The romantic image of sword to sword combat between...
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Cursed swords rest where steel carries memory, guilt, and consequence. Some were forged with violent intent, others...
Medieval battles survive in memory for different reasons. Some changed the course of nations, others became legends...
The idea of the “greatest swordsman” is slippery. We are comparing people across centuries, cultures, weapons, and...
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Explained The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is not a single tidy book you can summarise and...
A quick historian’s note before we start Calling any weapon “the most deadly” always makes historians twitch...
1. It was built for control, not brute force The longsword gets a reputation as a heavy...
Kusanagi no Tsurugi Kusanagi no Tsurugi sits above every other Japanese sword because it was never really...
Medieval outlaws occupy a strange position in history. They were criminals by law, yet often celebrated in...
Medieval writers loved scale. The bigger the army, the greater the glory on the battlefield, or the...