• Leading the Charge?: Leadership in war in late medieval Scottish burghs

  Martial Culture in Medieval Town Oct 18, 2021 | 14:16 pm

  The government of late medieval Scottish towns was dominated by a small merchant elite. Focusing on a 1485 entry from the council registers of Aberdeen, this blog post will examine the role elected officials from the merchant elite played in leading burgh contingents to war.

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• How Common Men Shall Be Armed: Equipment of the Common Soldier of England 1450 to 1500

  Martial Culture in Medieval Town Oct 1, 2021 | 11:36 am

  The armaments of common soldiers in the Late Medieval Period of England is often an overlooked and understudied aspect of the military activities of the kingdom. Armies made up of such men were a vital part of the defense of the realm. Despite the stereotype of being poorly equipped, we have evidence to suggest many troops were armed and armoured to a meaningful degree, painting a much different picture of England’s home defence than previously accepted in the wider academic community.​

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• Conference Review: “Second International Conference on the Military History of the Mediterranean Sea” (Thessaloniki, 16-18 September 2021)

  Martial Culture in Medieval Town Sep 25, 2021 | 01:24 am

  A review of the “Second International Conference on the Military History of the Mediterranean Sea” took place on September 16-18, 2021 in Thessaloniki.

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• The Smithfield Tournament of 1467

  Martial Culture in Medieval Town Aug 19, 2021 | 16:11 pm

  Four surviving accounts of the Smithfield tournament record the event as a hybrid of two distinct traditions and reveal how the martial activity and other festivities unfolded across the city of London.

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• Urban political violence in the fifteenth century, from Prague to Hamburg

  Martial Culture in Medieval Town Jul 19, 2021 | 16:05 pm

  During the late medieval period in Central and Northern Europe, urban spaces were at the epicenter of much of the trade, the manufacturing, the technological innovation, and administration of the regions surrounding them. Compared to the rural world, they were often hubs of trade, as zones of affluence and relative safety. But these urban spaces were also fraught with tension and not unusually, violence. Because of the important role played by towns in so many aspects of life for every medieval estate, relatively small incidents of political strife or open violence, which town dwellers made many efforts to quell, could have enormous ramifications both within and far beyond the town walls. This paper examines a few specific cases of social violence in towns, and in particular the large, partly autonomous towns known as Free Cities, and how these incidents impacted the urban center and the larger polities around them.

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