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Do you have a source for this? This sounds like a fishy story to me based on my understanding of medieval society: 1. Peasants are often called up for military
by faanghacker 6y ago
Do you have a source for this? This sounds like a fishy story to me based on my understanding of medieval society:
1. Peasants are often called up for military duty as levies (conscripts), to supplement the knights and men-at-arms. Especially when there wasn't a standing army.
2. Authority wasn't so centralized -- these local matters would be the authority of local lords, not the king.
- somedudetbh 6y ago"In the Annals of St Bertin…"?
- samatman 6y agoThe account you're replying to gave you a source: the Annals of St. Bertin. It's available on Google Books, you have everything you need satisfy your own curiousity.
- sonthonax 6y agoGod, people’s reading comprehension is so poor nowadays.
- sundvor 6y agoAh, the young people... https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20171003-proof-that-people-have-always-complained-about-young-adults https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20171003-proof-that-peo...
- C1sc0cat 6y agoBut that period is dark ages not medieval
- maskros 6y agoThe Medieval period lasted from the 5th to 15th century. The Dark Ages is a misnomer for the early medieval period (5th to 10th centuries).
- Mediterraneo10 6y agoHistorians no longer use the term Dark Ages and haven't for years now. Late Antiquity and the early Medieval era were more complex than that.