List of medieval weapons

The following is a list of Wikipedia articles on types of weapons that were in use during the Middle Ages (roughly between the mid 1st to mid 2nd millennia AD).

Swords

Swords can be single or double-bladed edges. The blade can be straight or curved.

• Arming sword
• Broadsword
• Claymore
• Falchion

• Katana
• Longsword
• Rapier
• Sabre
• Shortsword
• Ulfberht
• Zweihander

Blunt or cleaving weapons

• Battle axe
• Club
• Flail
• Mace
• Flanged mace
• Pernach
• Shestopyor
• Maul
• Morning star
• Quarterstaff
• War hammer
• Bec de Corbin
• Horseman's pick
• Bludgeon

Spear and other polearm and poleaxe weapons

• Bardiche
• Bill
• Glaive
• Guisarme
• Halberd
• Lance
• Lochaber Axe
• Lucerne hammer
• Man catcher
• Military fork
• Partisan
• Pike
• Plançon a picot
• Ranseur
• Sovnya
• Spetum
• Swordstaff
• Voulge
• War-scythe
• War hammer

Ranged

• Bow
  • Longbow
    • English longbow
  • Recurve bow
    • Mongol bow
• Crossbow
  • Arbalest
  • Ballista
  • Repeating crossbow
• Sling
• Throwing weapons
  • Francisca
  • Nzappa zap

• Chakram
• Culverin
• Hand cannon
• Musket
• Throwing Spear
• Shuriken

Siege weapons

• Battering ram
• Ballista
• Bombard
• Catapult
  • Mangonel
  • Onager
  • Petrary
  • Trebuchet
• Cannon
• Siege tower
• Mortar

Warships

• Caravel
• Carrack
• Cog
• Fire ship
  • Hellburners
• Galleon
• Galley
• Junk
• Longship
• Lou chuan (castle ship)
• Qiao chuan (bridge ship)

Fortification

Medieval fortifications also developed in connection with the weapons that opposed them.

• Bailey
• Battlement
• Barbican
• Castle
• Citadel
• City wall
• Pitch Ditch
• Curtain wall
• Drawbridge
• Fortified tower
• Gate
• Keep
• Moat
• Motte-and-bailey
• Murder-hole
• Palisade
• Portcullis

See also

• Military technology and equipment
• List of premodern combat weapons

External Links

• Medieval Weapons Glorious Lifestyle