Title:

Medieval Warfare

Year:
2018
Description:
Sverrir Sigurdsson leads the Birkebeiner to victory, but can they hold off the Bagler and keep control of Norway?

Theme: Birkebeiner versus Bagler

Peter Konieczny, ’Humble beginnings, bold dreams - Coming to Norway’.
Beñat Elortza, ’A grand victory during an hour of need - The Battle of Fimreite’,
Hörður Barðdal, ’"The hungry louse bites hardest” - Sverrir the guerrilla fighter’.
Carolyne Larrington, ’The gods who need fighters - Norse mythology and warfare’.
Ármann Jakobsson, ’A subtle and strongly ideological narrative - Sverris Saga’.
Randall Moffett, ’Sverrir’s men and chessmen - The Norwegian freeman soldier’.
Megan Arnott, ’Sverrir’s right to the throne is challenged - Birkebeiner versus Bagler’.
Features:
Kay Smith and Ruth R. Brown, ’"The blade did not shatter or break” - The sword of the Volsungs’.
Brian Burfield, ’"As if struck by a lethal arrow” - Warfare during the Black Death’.
Adam Ali, ’Diversity in medieval Islamic armies - Warriors of the Abbasid Caliphate’.
Giulia Calabrò, ’The Ottoman Empire versus Venice - The Siege of Scutari, 1474’.
Murray Dahm, ’More Norsemen on film - Blood, guts, and Vikings’.
Month:
September
Issue Number:
4
Genre:
History
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Subgenre:
Military History
Language:
English
Country:
United Kingdom
Type of Magazine:
Physical
Date Added:
2022-11-14 13:45:31
Date Added:
2022-11-14 13:45:31

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