:Medieval fortification is certainly large enough to warrant an article of its own, I think. As castle and fortification construction had a great impact on warfare, frequent linking is probably in order, yes. I'll do a piece similar to this one on the subject unless you feel inclined :-) --Anders Törlind |
Just so long as you tiptoe around the F-word (shhhh - feudalism), Anders, you'll be o.k.! --MichaelTinkler
I know! :-) Then we just need to sink our teeth into all these concepts and hammer out a readable text. Ugh. --Anders Törlind
Wondering what was meant by the Honor(s) system???? JHK
Ah, just all the "honor in battle", "knights honor", "family honor" and all that stuff going on. Terribly unscientific, so please change it if you have a handy term for those kind of things :-) Might just be me reading to many romantic novels as well, hehe. --Anders Törlind
Hmmm. I think Europe is quite enough to deal with (the middle ages are hardly an era elswhere anyway). When to start? Pick a suitably early date. 700? What is the definition of medieval? --Anders Törlind
On another note; how to organize the article? Into sections dealing with various parts of warfare (battlefield, siege, transportation, levying and so on) and cover the developments through time in those sectons, or instead divide the article into chronological parts, covering certain time intervals? --Anders Törlind
1. The ones that came frome the south west to Spain and France and were stopped by the Franks.
Called Moors2. The Golden Horde Ghengis Khan , Liegnitz Silesia stopped at the gates of Berlin
Don't know how many of these were Muslim
I think each group should be mentioned seperately and not lumped together H. Jonat
As for Genghis Khan and the Turks, my question is still whether they should be considered medieval or early modern. Since historians tend to see a separation between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, and much of the contact betwen these groups and Europe happened more during the Renaissance, it's a legitimate question. One of the difficulties in answering is that most of Eastern Europe was barely affected by the events in Italy. Personally, I'm not absolutely sure that there was a Renaissance(rather than just another of many renaissances), but since the article is defined as "between Ancient and Renaissance, it needs to be addressed. JHK
My initial thought with this article was to be a collection of facts about "the waging of war" and its methodologies and the factors defining it during the middle ages. Perhaps it is a bit too large a topic to fit in one article, but i do think we could squeeze in the general principles and overall evolution of it here. A nice transition to [Renaissance warfare]? (and subsequently the highly interesting [17th century warfare]?) would be nice as well, although there would be some overlap. --Anders Törlind