Medieval Warfare Docs

[Angantyr]

Post here documentaries on warfare in the Middle-Ages.

[Joseph Porta]

nice man, some of these are new for me! keep 'm coming if anyone else has some.

would you call Vikings medieval ? or is that pre-medieval?

[donib]

I bet people will rack up the Azincourt docs

anyways here is some weaboo material

[Angantyr]

would you call Vikings medieval ? or is that pre-medieval?

Depends wholly on the perspective; in most of Europe the Viking Age is a part of the Middle Ages beginning at the fall of the Western Roman Empire (around 476) but in traditional Scandinavian historiology the Middle Ages is regarded as beginning around 1050 at the end of the Viking Age. Generally, Viking Age culture had little to do with what we traditionally connect with Medieval society, such as feudalism, the role of the Church, Catholicism and Islam, the Papacy and Monastic orders, the birth of the universities etc. so I intentionally refrained from posting Viking docs here but feel free to do whatever you wish

[Materia]

Examing the skeletons is what I would like to watch more, since Its the first time I ever seen anything like that. Great found, thank you for this.

I award you with my +.

[Angantyr]

I'd really like to see more of those, myself. Speaks a lot for the weapons and the fashion of warfare seeing what injury types were inflicted.

[Joseph Porta]

Depends wholly on the perspective; in most of Europe the Viking Age is a part of the Middle Ages beginning at the fall of the Western Roman Empire (around 476) but in traditional Scandinavian historiology the Middle Ages is regarded as beginning around 1050 at the end of the Viking Age. Generally, Viking Age culture had little to do with what we traditionally connect with Medieval society, such as feudalism, the role of the Church, Catholicism and Islam, the Papacy and Monastic orders, the birth of the universities etc. so I intentionally refrained from posting Viking docs here but feel free to do whatever you wish

ha, you know alot man. ill link some viking docs later today, theyre good to watch.

[Angantyr]

A really excellent documentary I recently found about the Talhoffer manuscripts (some of our better sources to Medieval warfare). Don't mind the Danish texting, it's a UK program and the voice-over is in English (you may recognize the experimental archaeologist from 'The Weapons that Made Britain' series):

http://www.dr.dk/tv/se/middelalderens-blodigste-vaben/middelalderens-blodigste-vaben#!/00:01

[Falka]

A lot of movies removed 

[Osiris]

Brace yourselves Links are coming!

Battlefield Britain was a nice series (not all medieval)

Boudicca's Rebellion

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Hastings

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Battle for wales 1403 <--- most medieval

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Spanish Armada

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After that it starts going into musketry

The Crusades by the bbc

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Weapons that made Britain (i like this guy ^^)
Sword

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Longbow

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Lance

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Shield

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Armour

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[Pollux]

I liked watching these for his macabre fascination with the weapons.

[Leesin]

Mike Loades is the guy who presents the Weapons that made Britain series, he is an awesome guy with a lot of knowledge, anything I have watched with him in it has been a good watch.

[Logen]

A really excellent documentary I recently found about the Talhoffer manuscripts

Hm, it says that program does not exist anymore.
It was this one, yes?
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xh5aey_ngc-medieval-fight-book-part-1-3_shortfilms

[Angantyr]

Yes, thanks, that's the one.

[Osiris]

I like the series called "The british" it was on sky atlantic a while ago and was pretty great

http://thebritish.sky.com/

cant find the series but found a trailer and short extracts from episodes

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great series with a lot of famous british historians authors and celebs commenting it goes from druids to the modern day.


some of the commentators http://thebritish.sky.com/Celebrities/