He is a historian of medieval warfare, and the author of "Alfred the Great: War, Kingship and Culture in Anglo-Saxon England." July 30, 2013 Medieval chivalry was an aristocratic ethos designed to ...

Jean Pascal Zanders, a veteran scholar of weapons of mass destruction, has been looking into de Mussi’s Caffa claims as part of a project on the history of biological and chemical warfare. He argues ...

Nicholson’s Medieval Warfare: Theory and Practice of War in Europe, 300-1500—which is about right for Game of Thrones. Get your history fix in one place: sign up for the weekly TIME History ...