Soldiers' Lives through History - The Middle Ages

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Soldiers' Lives through History - The Middle Ages is written by Clifford J. Rogers and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0313042012 (ISBN 10) and 9780313042010 (ISBN 13).

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. If they did not slaughter the peasants they met, they took them prisoner to be sold as slaves or ransomed at heavy cost. It was a brutal time. Rogers illuminates the history of medieval soldiers in wartime and in peacetime, describing the lives of those who attacked, and those who defended, the fortified castles, towns, and lands of Europe and beyond in the Middle Age.