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Battle Tactics of the Hussites in the 15th century

by DRM_peter Posted on February 10, 2025

The Hussites, also known as the Taborites, became a formidable fighting force in the early fifteenth-century under the leadership of Jan Ziska (d.1424).  In the following two accounts, the first by Enea Silvio Piccolomini (later to be Pope Pius II), … Continue reading →

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The Battle of Stillfried, 1278, from the Gesta Hungarorum

by DRM_peter Posted on September 21, 2016

The Gesta Hungarorum, or The Deeds of the Hungarians, was written by Simon of Keza around 1280-2. Simon was a court cleric to King Ladislas IV of Hungary, and his work is highly laudatory of his king. In the following section, the writer describes the battle of Stillfield, in which the forces of Ladislas and Rudolf of Habsburg, the German king, defeated King Otakar of Bohemia. The battle was fought on August 26, 1278. Continue reading →

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Knightly Arms – Plebian Arms

by Sandra Alvarez Posted on July 15, 2014

Knightly Arms – Plebian Arms Zdzislaw Zygulski Jr. (Kraków, Poland) Quaestiones medii aevi novae:  vol. 4 (1999) The science dealing with the arms of the past – Waffenkunde, hoplology – developed during the second half of the nineteenth century and … Continue reading →

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