Soldiers' Lives through History - The Middle Ages

by Clifford J. Rogers

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313333505
• ISBN13: 9780313333507
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: Greenwood
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.3" x 10.2"