List of medieval weapons
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The following is a list of Wikipedia articles on types of weapons that were in use during the post-classical historical period (roughly between the mid 1st to mid 2nd millennia AD).
Swords and blades
Swords can be single or double-bladed edges. The blade can be straight or curved.
- Arming sword
- Falchion
- Katana
- Longsword
- Sabre or *Saber (Most sabers belong to the renaissance period, but some sabers can be found in the late medieval period)
- Shortsword
- Ulfberht ("Viking sword")
Trauma 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 polearms
- Ahlspiess
- 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
- Crossbow
- Sling
- Throwing weapons
- Chakram
- Culverin
- Hand cannon
- Musket
- Throwing Spear
- Shuriken
- Kunai
Siege weapons
Warships
- Caravel
- Carrack
- Cog
- Fire ship
- Hellburners
- Galleon
- Galley
- Turtle Ship
- 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
- Curtain wall
- Drawbridge
- Fortified tower
- Gate
- Keep
- Moat
- Motte-and-bailey
- Murder-hole
- Palisade
- Portcullis
