List of medieval weapons

The following is a list of Wikipedia articles of the types of weapons that were in use during the post-classical historical period (roughly between the mid 1st to mid 2nd millennia AD).

Offensive

Melee weapons

Trauma and cleaving weapons

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

Swords and hilt weapons

Swords can have single or double bladed edges or even edgeless. The blade can be curved or straight.

• Arming sword
• Dagger
• Estoc
• Falchion
• Katana
• Knife
• Longsword
• Rapier
• Sabre or Saber (Most sabers belong to the renaissance period, but some sabers can be found in the late medieval period)
• Shortsword
• Ulfberht (Frankish)

Spears and polearms

• Ahlspiess
• Bardiche
• Bec de Corbin
• Bill
• Glaive
• Goedendag
• 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 weapons

• Bow
  • Longbow
    • English longbow
  • Recurve bow
    • Mongol bow
  • Crossbow
    • Arbalest
    • Ballista
    • Repeating crossbow
• Flamethrowers
  • Pen Huo Qi flamethrower
  • Byzantine flamethrower
• Gunpowder weapons
  • Arquebus
  • Culverin
  • Hand cannon
  • Musket
• Rocket powered weapons
  • Huo Che rocket arrow launcher
• Sling
• Throwing weapons
  • Chakram
  • Francisca
  • Kunai
  • Nzappa zap
  • Shuriken
  • Throwing knife
  • Throwing spear

Siege weapons

• Ballista
• Battering ram
• Bombard
• Cannon
• Hwacha rocket arrow launcher
• Mortar
• Petrary
  • Catapult
  • Mangonel
  • Onager
  • Trebuchet
• Siege tower
• Staff sling

Warships

• Caravel
• Carrack
• Cog
• Fire ship
• Galleon
• Galley
• Hellburners
• Junk
• Longship
• Lou chuan (baby ship)
• Qiao chuan (banana ship)
• Turtle Ship

Animals in war

• Camels in warfare
• Dogs in warfare
• Horses in warfare
  • Courser
  • Destrier
  • Rouncey
• War elephant

Defensive

Armor

While armor is not technically a weapon, its use was driven by weapon technology and was a driving force in weapon development.

• Gambeson
• Gauntlet
• Lamellar armour
• Mail
• Shield

Fortifications

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

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

See also

• List of medieval military technologies
• List of premodern combat weapons
• Military technology and equipment