List of medieval weapons
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Medieval weapons varied from simple tools to complex engines of emerging medieval warfare technology.
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- Blade
- Axe
- Battle Axe
- Danish axe
- Doloire
- Mattock (improvised)
- Dagger or Knife
- Sword
- Bastard Sword (often used in fiction)
- Broadsword
- Claymore
- Cutlass (a little dubious)
- Falchion
- Foil (fencing)
- Longsword
- Rapier
- Sabre
- Spatha
- Shortsword
- Two-handed sword
- Axe
- Blunt weapons
- Ahlspiess
- Candeliere
- Breach pike
- Bardiche
- Billhook
- Boar spear
- Fauchard
- Footman's lance
- Glaive
- Guisarme
- Halberd
- Lance
- Man catcher
- Military fork
- Partisan
- Pike
- Plançon a picot
- Ranseur
- Spetum
- Swordstaff
- Voulge
- War-scythe
While armor is not technically a weapon, its development was both driven by weapon technology and a driving force for that same technology in return.
Medieval fortifications also developed in connection with the weapons that opposed them.