Kings and Generals animated historical documentary series on the history of middle ages continues with a video in which we talk about Christian mercenaries who were in the Muslim service in Iberia and ...

The famous helmet from the ship burial at Sutton Hoo in England may be evidence that Anglo-Saxon warriors fought as mercenaries for ... author Helen Gittos, a medieval historian at the University ...

But, as Nora Berend shows in her enthralling study, “El Cid: The Life and Afterlife of a Medieval Mercenary,” this hasn’t prevented an outlaw, freebooter and warlord — as differing ...

By formalizing and regulating the deployment of its ex-soldiers as mercenaries, Sri Lanka could address economic, social, and ...