The following is a list of Wikipedia articles on types of weapons that were in use during the Middle Ages (roughly between the mid 1st to mid 2nd millennia AD).

Swords[edit]

Swords can be single or double-bladed edges. The blade can be straight or curved.

• Arming sword
• Broadsword
• Claymore
• Falchion

• Katana
• Longsword
• Rapier
• Sabre
• Shortsword
• Ulfberht
• Zweihander

Blunt or cleaving weapons[edit]

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

Spear and other polearm and poleaxe weapons[edit]

• 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[edit]

• Bow
  • Longbow
    • English longbow
  • Recurve bow
    • Mongol bow
• Crossbow
  • Arbalest
  • Ballista
  • Repeating crossbow
• Sling
• Throwing weapons
  • Francisca
  • Nzappa zap

• Throwing Spear
• Shuriken
• Chakram
• Hand cannon
• Culverin
• Musket

Siege weapons[edit]

• Battering ram
• Ballista
• Bombard
• Catapult
  • Mangonel
  • Onager
  • Petrary
  • Trebuchet
• Cannon
• Siege tower
• Mortar

Warships[edit]

• Caravel
• Carrack
• Cog
• Fire ship
  • Hellburners
• Galleon
• Galley
• Junk
• Longship
• Lou chuan (castle ship)
• Qiao chuan (bridge ship)

Fortification[edit]

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

See also[edit]

• Military technology and equipment
• List of premodern combat weapons

External Links[edit]

• Medieval Weapons Glorious Lifestyle

References[edit]