Removal of Arrowheads & Treatment of Wounds in the Middle Ages
Movies and tv-series often show the removal of arrows as an extremely unsophisticated and brutal procedure in which the wounded man has to bite on a piece of wood, and…
Movies and tv-series often show the removal of arrows as an extremely unsophisticated and brutal procedure in which the wounded man has to bite on a piece of wood, and…
Depending on who you ask a medieval English Longbowman under battlefield conditions was able to shoot 6 to 12 arrows per minute. When we combine that with large numbers of…
When we see the depiction of medieval archers during a battle in a movie then we often see men who have stuck their arrows in the ground in front of…
Have you ever asked yourself what happened when a medieval archer ran out of arrows? While that might be a situation that is almost never portrayed (I honestly couldn`t recall…