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 weapons

Trauma and cleaving weapons

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

Animals in war

Defensive weapons

Shields and body armour

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

Fortifications

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

References

Γεώργιος Ηλιόπουλος (Georgios Iliopoulos), "Η χαμένη πυραυλική τεχνολογία των αρχαίων Ελλήνων" (The lost missile technology of the ancient Greeks), Ιχώρ (Ihor), 27, page 12-13, Greece, 2002.
Γεώργιος Ηλιόπουλος (Georgios Iliopoulos), "Η χαμένη πυραυλική τεχνολογία των αρχαίων Ελλήνων" (The lost missile technology of the ancient Greeks), Ιχώρ (Ihor), 27, page 13, Greece, 2002.

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[Ihor-1] Γεώργιος Ηλιόπουλος (Georgios Iliopoulos), "Η χαμένη πυραυλική τεχνολογία των αρχαίων Ελλήνων" (The lost missile technology of the ancient Greeks), Ιχώρ (Ihor), 27, page 12-13, Greece, 2002.

[2] Γεώργιος Ηλιόπουλος (Georgios Iliopoulos), "Η χαμένη πυραυλική τεχνολογία των αρχαίων Ελλήνων" (The lost missile technology of the ancient Greeks), Ιχώρ (Ihor), 27, page 13, Greece, 2002.