Primary Sources Archive: Medieval

• A Byzantine campaign in the Balkans (594), according to Theophylact Simocatta (2105 Reads) 
• A Description of a Castle in Milan in 1480 by Giovanni Ridolfi (2559 Reads) 
• A Description of English soldiers during the Wars of the Roses by Dominic Mancini (3341 Reads) 
• A Naval battle between Pisa and Genoa, 1284 by Salimbene de Adam (2182 Reads) 
• A plan to regain the Holy Land from the Master of the Hospitallers (c.1305) by Fulk of Villaret (2921 Reads) 
• A Plea Roll of Edward I's Army in Scotland, 1296 (2618 Reads) 
• Accounts about the Loss of Acre (1291) (2214 Reads) 
• Annals of Owain Glyn Dwr, 1400-1415 (2349 Reads) 
• Anonymous of Bethune's account of the battle of Bouvines (2350 Reads) 
• Babur's capture and loss of Samarkand (1501), according to the Baburnama (2712 Reads) 
• Battle at Orlygsstað from the Saga of the Icelanders (2459 Reads) 
• Battle of Breiðabólstað from the Saga of the Icelanders (1992 Reads) 
• Battle of Campaldino, 1289, according to Dino Compagni (2105 Reads) 
• Battle of Campaldino, 1289, according to Giovanni Villani (2898 Reads) 
• Battle of Floi from the Saga of the Icelanders (2229 Reads) 
• Battle of Lincoln in 1141 from Gesta Stephani (2037 Reads) 
• Battle of Lincoln in 1141 from Henry, archdeacon of Huntingdon (2170 Reads) 
• Battle of Lincoln in 1141 from Orderic Vitalis (2869 Reads) 
• Battle of Lincoln in 1141 from The Chronicle of John of Worcester (2841 Reads) 
• Battle of Lincoln in 1141 from William of Malmesbury (2583 Reads) 
• Battle Tactics of the Hussites (2241 Reads) 
• Battles and Campaigns from The Chronicle of Adam of Usk (2708 Reads) 
• Battles of Saint Aubin (1053) and Mortemer (1054) (2213 Reads) 
• Bologna against Faenza and Forli, 1275 by Salimbene de Adam (2203 Reads) 
• Byzantine conquest of Italy in the sixth-century, according to the Chronicle of Marcellinus (2797 Reads) 
• Castel Bolognese (1500) (2364 Reads) 
• Charlemagne's way of raising troops (2324 Reads) 
• Charlemagne: The account of the siege of Barcelona in 801 and warfare in Moorish Spain, from the Life of Louis the Pious (2483 Reads) 
• Charlemagne: The accounts for the years 775 to 776 from the Annals of the Kingdom of the Franks (2896 Reads) 
• Charlemagne: The accounts for the years 782 to 784 from the Revised Annals of the Kingdom of the Franks (2316 Reads) 
• Charlemagne: The accounts for the years 808 to 810 from the Annals of the Kingdom of the Franks (2294 Reads) 
• Charlemagne: Three capitularies detailing military affairs in the Carolingian Empire (3910 Reads) 
• Contrat de maître Barra, facteur d’arbalètes et autres artilleries, pris au service du consulat de Cahors le 1er octobre 1369 (2568 Reads) 
• Crusade planning in the late thirteenth century by the Provincial Council of Canterbury (2173 Reads) 
• Defending Milan in 1490 by Ludovico il Moro, duke of Milan (2569 Reads) 
• Delivery of a barge, provided by the City to sere under the King, together with the rigging and tackle thereof, to William Martlesham, its master (1373) (2343 Reads) 
• Description of English soldiers in Italy by Filippo Villani (2294 Reads) 
• Description of Mongol warfare from Friar John of Plano Carpini (1247) (2598 Reads) 
• Descriptions of warfare found in the Chronicle of Louth Park Abbey, 1314-1346 (2687 Reads) 
• Descriptions of warfare in The Rhyme Chronicle of Livonia (3119 Reads) 
• Disorder and Warfare according to the Annals of Xanten (844 -861) (2604 Reads) 
• Documents Relating to the Baltic Crusade (1199-1266) (2110 Reads) 
• Edward II asking for London to send soldiers to Berwick, 1314 (1950 Reads) 
• Edward III's Letter detailing his campaign in France, 1339 (2499 Reads) 
• English Troops in Portugal in 1381, according to Fernao Lopes (2422 Reads) 
• Episodes of Medieval Warfare from the History of the Franks by Gregory of Tours (2122 Reads) 
• Eyewitness accounts of the First Crusade (2418 Reads) 
• Five Letters concerning the Second Crusade (2596 Reads) 
• Frederick I 'Barbarossa' issues rules for his army (1158) (2235 Reads) 
• Geoffrey of Mandeville's rebellion in 1143-44 (1945 Reads) 
• Herman of Tournai's account of the war in Flanders in 1127 (2099 Reads) 
• Ibn al-Athīr's Accounts of the Rūs (10th to 13th centuries) (2346 Reads) 
• Jacques de Vitry: Sermons to a Military Order (2367 Reads) 
• Joan of Arc's campaigns, from the Chronicles of Enguerrand de Monstrelet (2561 Reads) 
• Joan of Arc's victory at Orleans (1428), according to the Commentaries of Pius II (4030 Reads) 
• Journal of the Movements of King Edward I in Scotland, 1296 (2532 Reads) 
• Knut's Invasion of England in 1015-16, according to the Knytlinga Saga (2394 Reads) 
• Laws concerning warfare and the military, from Las Siete Partidas (2072 Reads) 
• Letter from Aymeric, Patriarch of Antioch, to Louis VII, King of France (1164) (2378 Reads) 
• Letter from the Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry, with news of the defeat of the Scots at the Battle of Falkirk, 22nd July, 1298 (2035 Reads) 
• Letters of Conrad III during the Second Crusade (2215 Reads) 
• London recieves a letter from Edward the Black Prince, about the Battle of Poitiers, 1356 (2541 Reads) 
• London sends a letter to Edward III, relating their contributions to England's military, 1357 (2313 Reads) 
• Naval Battle off Acre in 1190 from The Chronicle of the Third Crusade: The Itinerarium Peregrinorum et Gesta Regis Ricardi (2221 Reads) 
• Payments of expenses for a London contingent sent to France, 1338 (2011 Reads) 
• Peasants at War in France: Guillaume l'Aloue in 1359 (2378 Reads) 
• Petitions dealing with warfare from Fourteenth century Berwick, Cumbria and Durham (2606 Reads) 
• Philippe de Remy's description of a fictionalised tournament at Ressons-Gournay (c.1241) (2252 Reads) 
• Pisan raids on the Balearics, 1114 from Ibn Kardabus (1987 Reads) 
• Portions of Two Poems by the Twelfth-Century Knight-Troubadour Bertran de Born (2174 Reads) 
• Raid by Count Peter of Brittany against Muslim lands in 1239 from: Crusader Syria in the Thirteenth Century (2121 Reads) 
• Raising of money for London to send soldiers to Scotland, 1334 (2071 Reads) 
• Ransom of a Burgundian knight in 1356, according to London records (2359 Reads) 
• Ransoming of English prisoners by St. Margaret of Scotland (2178 Reads) 
• Robert of Clari's account of the Fourth Crusade (3123 Reads) 
• Roger of Wendover's account of the battle of Bouvines (2120 Reads) 
• Schioppettieri a Venezia (1477) (2349 Reads) 
• Selection about warfare from The King's Mirror, a thirteenth century Norwegian text (3028 Reads) 
• Selections from the Life of Louis VI, by Suger (2318 Reads) 
• Siege of Carlaverock, 1300 by Walter of Exeter (3365 Reads) 
• Sources on Tamerlane (1336-1405), including the Battle of Angora (1402) (3531 Reads) 
• The Arab invasions of Southern Italy, according to The Chronicle of Ahimaaz (2194 Reads) 
• The Asahina Battle Chronicle of early Sixteenth Century Japan from The Journal of Socho (2448 Reads) 
• The Battle of Agincourt, 1415 by Enguerrand de Monstrelet (2566 Reads) 
• The Battle of Alarcos, 1195 by Al-Himyari (2524 Reads) 
• The battle of Bouvines according to Philippe Mousket (1992 Reads) 
• The battle of Bouvines according to the Minstel of Reims (2276 Reads) 
• The battle of Bouvines according to the Phlippiad by William of Breton (2107 Reads) 
• The battle of Bouvines according to William of Breton (prose account) (1994 Reads) 
• The Battle of Bremule, By Orderic Vitalis (2464 Reads) 
• The Battle of Caravaggio (1448) from the Chronicle of Cristoforo da Soldo (2714 Reads) 
• The Battle of Crécy according to Jean Froissart (2223 Reads) 
• The Battle of Fontenay in 841, according to the Annals of Fulda (2193 Reads) 
• The Battle of Fornovo (1495), according to Alessandro Beneditti (2559 Reads) 
• The Battle of Gisors, 1198, from the Annals of Roger of Hoveden (3563 Reads) 
• The Battle of Hattin (1187) from: The Conquest of Jerusalem and the Third Crusade (3906 Reads) 
• The Battle of Hattin from Masalik al-absar fi mamalik written by Sihab al-Din b. Fadl Allah al-'Umari (2969 Reads) 
• The Battle of Jerez, 1231 from the Primera Cronica General (2311 Reads) 
• The Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa, 1212 from al-Marrakushi, al-Mu'jib (2482 Reads) 
• The Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa, according to The Latin Chronicle of the Kings of Castile (3073 Reads) 
• The Battle of Lincoln (1217), according to Roger of Wendover (2193 Reads) 
• The Battle of Lincoln in 1217, from the History of William the Marshal (1934 Reads) 
• The Battle of Nicopolis in 1396, according to Johann Schiltberger (3050 Reads) 
• The Battle of Norafiord (1184), according to the Sverrissaga (2035 Reads) 
• The Battle of Nouy, from Ralph Glaber (2166 Reads) 
• The Battle of Pavia in 1525, by Rabbi Joseph ben Joshua ben Meir (2264 Reads) 
• The Battle of Stamford Bridge (1066) and the life of Haraldr Sigurðarson, according to Theodoricus Monachus (2303 Reads) 
• The Battle of Stillfried, 1278, from the Gesta Hungarorum (2500 Reads) 
• The Battle of Tannenburg or Grunwald in 1410, according to Jan Dlugosz (2315 Reads) 
• The Battle of the Bannockburn (1314), according to the Vita Edwardi Secundi (2614 Reads) 
• The Battle of the Golden Spurs, 1302 from the Annales Ghandenses (2329 Reads) 
• The Battle of the Standard, 1138, from the Hexham chronicle (2153 Reads) 
• The Battle of Tusculum, 1167 by Reinald, the archbishop of Cologne at Tusculum (2172 Reads) 
• The Battle of Zallaqa, 1086 from a 'Abd al-Wahid al Marrakushi (2524 Reads) 
• The Campaigns of Emperor Herakleios (620-6), according to the Chronicle of Theophanes Confessor (2141 Reads) 
• The Capture of Ceuta by the Portuguese (1415) from the Chronicles of the reign of King Dom Joao I (2674 Reads) 
• The capture of Le Mans and the flight of Henry II, from the History of William the Marshal (2118 Reads) 
• The Career of Robert Guiscard, according to the Annales Lupi Protospatharii (2526 Reads) 
• The Chronicle of Pere III: Campaign in Roussillion, 1344 (2303 Reads) 
• The Chronicles of Celje (in medieval German) (2692 Reads) 
• The Crusade of the Bishop of Norwich in 1383, according to the Chronica maiora of Thomas Walsingham (2445 Reads) 
• The Crusade of the Bishop of Norwich in 1383, according to the Chronicle of Henry Knighton (2606 Reads) 
• The Crusade of the Bishop of Norwich in 1383, according to the Westminster Chronicle (2372 Reads) 
• The Fourth Book of The Chronicle of Æthelweard (2899 Reads) 
• The French Army in Italy (1494), according to Matteo Maria Boiardo (2608 Reads) 
• The French Chronicle of London on the battle of Sluys and the siege of Tournai (2255 Reads) 
• The Genoese expedition to Almeria, 1147 by Cafarro (2436 Reads) 
• The History of the Siege of Ancona (1173), according to Boncompagno da Signa (3642 Reads) 
• The Marchiennes account of the battle of Bouvines (2083 Reads) 
• The Norwegian Invasion of Scotland in 1263, A Letter from R. de Neville to Walter de Merton, relating the information he has heard about the war (2217 Reads) 
• The Norwegian Invasion of Scotland in 1263, The Book of Pluscarden's version of events (2252 Reads) 
• The Norwegian Invasion of Scotland in 1263, The Saga of Hakon's version of events (2269 Reads) 
• The Sack of Montopoli in Val D'Arno (1498) by Vincenzo Valier (2262 Reads) 
• The Siege of Amida from Ammianus Marcellainus (1942 Reads) 
• The Siege of Amida in 502, according to Pseudo-Joshua the Stylite (2024 Reads) 
• The Siege of Antioch from Peter Tudebode's Historia de Hierosolymitano Itinere (2586 Reads) 
• The Siege of Ascalon (1153) from the Monumenta Germaniae Historica Scriptores (2319 Reads) 
• The siege of Bruges, according to Galbert of Bruges' The Murder of Charles the Good - part 1: March 9-19, 1127 (2445 Reads) 
• The siege of Bruges, according to Galbert of Bruges' The Murder of Charles the Good - part 2: April 11-14, 1127 (2851 Reads) 
• The Siege of Burriana (1233), according to the Chronicle of James the Conqueror (2747 Reads) 
• The Siege of Constantinople (1453), according to George Sphrantzes (3263 Reads) 
• The Siege of Constantinople (1453), according to Kritovoulos (4254 Reads) 
• The Siege of Constantinople (1453), according to Nicolo Barbaro (2714 Reads) 
• The Siege of Florence, 1312, according to Giovanni Villani (2308 Reads) 
• The Siege of Padua in 1257, according to Rolandino Patavino (2738 Reads) 
• The Siege of Termes (1210), according to the Historia Albigensis (3004 Reads) 
• The Siege of Termes from the Song of the Cathar Wars (1210) from: The Song of the Cathar Wars: The History of the Albigensian Crusade (2041 Reads) 
• The Siege of the Rock of Tunsberg (1201), from the Sverrissaga (1979 Reads) 
• The Siege of Thessaloniki in 904, from the letter of John Kaminiates (2231 Reads) 
• The Siege of Toulouse in 1217-18, according to The Chronicle of William of Puylaurens (3484 Reads) 
• The Siege of Tyre in 1111-12, according to the Chronicle of Ibn Al-Qalanisi (2057 Reads) 
• The Siege of Worcester, from the Chronicle of Worcester (2092 Reads) 
• The Sixth Crusade (1249), according to Abu al-Faraj Gregory Bar Hebraeus (2063 Reads) 
• The Skill of Archery from the Munyatu'l-Guzat (2896 Reads) 
• The surrender of Gaston castle (1268), according The Catalan Rule of the Templars (2398 Reads) 
• The tournament at Lagny-sur-Marne, from the History of William the Marshal (2367 Reads) 
• The Tree of Battles, by Honoré Bonet (2193 Reads) 
• The War of Galata, according to the History of John Cantacuzenus, 1348 (2132 Reads) 
• Two accounts of the conquest of Cyprus by Richard I (1191) (2205 Reads) 
• Two Documents concerning Crossbow-shooting in the Marquisate of Mantua in the 15th century (2760 Reads) 
• Viking Raids in France and the Siege of Paris in 882-886 from the annals of St. Vaast (2911 Reads) 
• War between Henry V and the city of Cologne, 1114 from The Greater Annals of Cologne (1920 Reads) 
• War in the Orkney Islands in the Eleventh Century from the Orkneyinga Saga (1911 Reads) 
• Warfare between England and Scotland in the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries from the Chronicle of Lanercost (2286 Reads) 
• Warfare between England and Scotland in the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries from the Scalacronica (2365 Reads) 
• Warfare Between England and Scotland, 1299 - 1301, according to Documents from the English Government (3394 Reads) 
• Warfare between Henry I and Robert Curthose, according to Wace (2221 Reads) 
• Warfare between Persia and the Byzantine Empire in the sixth-century, according to the Chronicle of John Malalas (2313 Reads) 
• Warfare between Reggio and Gesso, 1287 by Salimbene de Adam (2274 Reads) 
• Warfare in 12th century Russia, according to the Kievan Chronicle (2141 Reads) 
• Warfare in 13th century Byzantium, according to George Akropolites (2288 Reads) 
• Warfare in al-Andalus from The History of the Mohammedan Dynasties in Spain (2240 Reads) 
• Warfare in Bristol and Bath, from the Gesta Stephani (2227 Reads) 
• Warfare in Eleventh-Century Spain (Al-Andalus), according to The Tibyan (1998 Reads) 
• Warfare in England and France in 1173-74, according to William of Newburgh (2092 Reads) 
• Warfare in Fifteenth Century Italy, according to Luca Landucci (2392 Reads) 
• Warfare in Flanders, according to Walter of Thérouanne's Vita Karoli comitis Flandri (2281 Reads) 
• Warfare in Fourteenth Century Hungary, from the Chronica de Gestis Hungarorum (2306 Reads) 
• Warfare in France and Flanders, 1381 to 1386, according to Buonaccorso Pitti (2380 Reads) 
• Warfare in Italy, 1332-3, according to Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor (2138 Reads) 
• Warfare in Normandy, 1201-1204, according to Rigord's Deeds of Phillip Augustus (2431 Reads) 
• Warfare in the city of Perugia in 1495 by Francesco Matarazzo (2205 Reads) 
• Warfare in the Crusader States (1104-1127), according to the Chronicle of Matthew of Edessa (2354 Reads)