1 Gallic warrior fleeing, temple frieze, terracotta, 2nd century BC Celtic, from Civitalba, Italy
2 Carolingian sieges
3 The death of St Ólaf at the Battle of Stiklestad, Flateyjarbok
4 The English shield wall on the Bayeux Tapestry
5 Coronation of King Roger II, Palermo, Church of the Martorana
6 The Battle of Morat, 1476, from Diebold Schilling’s Chronicle
7 Gentile Bellini, Sultan Mehmet II, 1480
8 St Louis at Damietta
9 Joan of Arc directing operations
10 A soldier’s skull from the Battle of Towton, 1461
11 11th-century ivory carving from Cuenca (Spain) of a mounted warrior and an archer with a shortbow
12 Statue of Bartolomeo Colleoni, Venice, by Verrocchio
13 A crossbow with a steel bow
14 A complete suit of late medieval plate armour
15 Jean Courtois, Sicily Herald for the King of Aragón, c.1420
16 14th-century Flemish infantry on the Courtrai Chest
17 Krak des Chevaliers seen from the north-west of the castle
18 A cog, Luttrel Psalter
19 Templar knights leaving a crusader fortification in the Holy Land