Perhaps more than anything else, a 15th century soldier is identified by what he carried into battle. His armor and his weapons were the most readily observed parts of his kit, and it is the armor and the weapons that are used to represent the eras of warfare. A soldier’s choice of equipment, were he […]
“My name is Pars. I was born in the year 1474 in the Swedish city of Arboga, where my father’s father’s father had built a living making shoes. My grandfather Sigurd had two children who grew to be men, Andhers and Halstein. Andhers was born first by two years, and it was he that would […]
The word “science” is derived from the Latin scientia, meaning “knowledge.” In this sense, science in the 15th century was identical to its modern form: knowledge of the world gathered by observation. However, during the medieval period, that is all it was regarded as: knowledge. In the modern sense, science is a defined field, with […]