The Medieval Longsword by Neil Grant & Peter Dennis

Author:Neil Grant & Peter Dennis
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781472821546
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2020-02-14T00:00:00+00:00

A scene from a Swiss chronicle, c.1483, shows longswords carried as sidearms by both armoured men-at-arms and unarmoured handgunners. (Burgerbibliothek Bern, Mss.h.h.I.1, p.32 – Diebold Schilling, Amtliche Berner Chronik, vol. 1)

Equally, however, nobody with sense would go onto the battlefield without a sword as a secondary weapon, because it was the most effective weapon that could be carried on the belt. The spearman needed it in case the shaft of his polearm broke, the archer needed a weapon for when the enemy made contact with his line, and the armoured man-at-arms needed a weapon that could be used both mounted and on foot, as his primary weapons of lance and pollaxe were tied to one mode of combat or the other.

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