Author Blurb

Dr Stuart Ellis-Gorman has a passion for the Middle Ages and medieval archery born of a childhood fascination with Robin Hood and Lord of the Rings. He made a special study of the history of the longbow and the crossbow for his PhD at Trinity College Dublin and has presented on the medieval crossbow at multiple academic conferences. He is an active and award-winning contributor to the internet’s largest public history forum, /r/AskHistorians, and reviews history books for a range of academic publications. He lives in Ireland with his wife and daughter.

Research:

My research has been focused primarily on warfare and military technology in the Later Middle Ages but my interests extend to include the history of the Crusades, as well as the portrayal of medieval combat in games and movies - especially Dungeons and Dragons and other tabletop games.

My next project will be on the Hundred Years War, specifically the 15th century phase of the conflict. I’m still in the early stages of research, expanding my knowledge of the historiography of the period and accumulating books at a rate faster than I am able to read them.

Other Writing:

A full copy of my PhD thesis, The Technological Development of the Bow and the Crossbow in the Later Middle Ages, can be accessed via Trinity College’s Tara database.

It is also available on my Academia.edu page along with a list of my other publications.

I am also a contributor to the popular online history forum r/AskHistorians under the username Valkine. You can read a selection of my previous answers via my Flaired User Profile.