Many would pick up their swords and get stuck into some of the most savage battles imaginable. Here are five such formidable warrior-kings who mounted military campaigns in the British Isles. It’s ...

Criminals, like the poor, are always with us, but in the Middle Ages their number was legion. The two great classes of society that counted in the early Middle Ages were the warrior class, whose ...

It was the last of these – the warriors – who attracted much attention from contemporary chroniclers and historians. To understand how Western Europeans conducted warfare in the Central Middle Ages, ...