Medieval Longswords: Who used them and when?

"The fencing-guilds really had a hard-on for longswords" Kind of like most HEMA clubs...

My Dungeons & Dragons Paladin wields a +3 Longsword of Context. His battle cry is "IT DEPENDS!"

Personally I think longswords back in the day may not have been as common as an arming sword. But I think they were popular kinda like a fancy car that all your friends would drool over. Because they were long,elegant and expensive.

I think people confuse arming swords with longswords a lot.

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In all fairness, when you see a movie about King Arthur, from an historical perspective, that is totally frigging wrong regardless.

gambeson Gauntlets you mean Oven mitts?

I love that you mentioned the longsword made in 1198. I bought a replica of that sword specifically because its such a historical oddity

I see a new video from Scholagladiatoria and I stop what I am doing to watch!

makes sense...if you are going to walk around with a side-arm, you don't want to carry something bigger and longer then you have to. it would be a nuisance.

You can quite see how smart someone in how he handles, in this case potential, criticism. I absolutely like how he reacted to the one he thought of.

My HEMA group had a "backstage" event in the Solinger Klingenmuseum, THAT place to be for german and general blade weapons. A professor guided us around and we had the chance of having a close view and even test historical originals. So of course we asked the museum to show us original longswords of type XVa or XVIIIb of the oakeshott types. The professor was sorry to inform us that there are just few originals left in germany and the museum had NONE of that type in their hands.the professor told us that they were not used so often as it seems. So it seems to be true.

After all these years this is still my favorite channel on youtube.

More videos like this, please! What was the cultural context of swords, like now, who used them, but more importantly, how did people regard swords and swordsmen in their era. Japan has a load of info on this with the romantization of the katana and the samurai, but I haven't seen anything on, say, from the people who belonged to the fencing guilds you mentioned here.

I really like long swords not because I think they were widely used or even very common in the middle ages. I like them because I think they are just so cool. Also I think that replica you are holding in this video is an awesome looking example

This was brought up as a topic of discussion on the Face Book HEMA Alliance forum literally less than 24 hours ago. Great timing Matt!

Always knew their rareness (where are the longswordmen in medieval total war 2, for example), so this video really ties things together (they're rare because they were popular for barely any time at all, if ever they were).

Thanks Matt, this is something I've been wondering about for a while. Keep it up bro

Can we have a video on the evolution and use of artillery in late medieval times (1300-1500)

Always such good information, keep up the great work!