Medieval

Bow & Blade is the engine here — Kelly DeVries and Michael Livingston giving named battles the operational treatment most medieval coverage skips: Grandson, Hattin, the mechanics of infantry beating knights. Byzantium gets its due through Robin Pierson's long chronology, and the fall of Constantinople produced one of the archive's strongest Picks.

Standout Picks

PickAnthony Kaldellis, "1453: The Conquest and Tragedy of Constantinople" (Oxford UP, 2026) · New Books in Military History

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EssentialThe Battle of Formigny

EssentialThe Battle of Hattin

EssentialThe Battle of Grandson

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EssentialThe Battle of Dorylaeum Ft. Failure to Launch

EssentialThe Battle of Castillon

The Rest Is History

SelectionDawn of the Samurai: The Shōgun Triumphant (Part 4)

SelectionDawn of the Samurai: Bloodbath at the Bridge (Part 2)

New Books in Military History

SelectionThomas Smith, "The Fifth Crusade: A History of the Epic Campaign to Conquer Egypt" (Yale UP, 2026)

PickAnthony Kaldellis, "1453: The Conquest and Tragedy of Constantinople" (Oxford UP, 2026)

The History of Byzantium

SelectionTrebizond! Part Two

Dan Snow's History Hit

SelectionThe Crusades: Assassins vs Templars