Название: Soldiers' Lives through History - The Middle Ages
Автор: Clifford J. Rogers
Издательство: Greenwood
ISBN: 0313333505
Год: 2007
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 336
Размер: 18,7 МБ
Язык: Английский
The most dangerous arms in the world are those of horse and lance, because there is no means of stopping them, wrote a 15th-century commander, Jean de Bueil. From the fall of the Roman Empire to the end of the 15th century, the men (and a few women in disguise) who reported for military service or who led other men, scouted and skirmished, plundered and burned.