I'm a peasant in during the middle ages. My count declares war and raises me as a levy. By what means am I informed that I'm going to war? How am I trained? How long does it take for me to see combat? What is my next 24 hours like?
I'm a peasant in during the middle ages. My count declares war and raises me as a levy.
These two sentences are difficult to reconcile into the High Middle Ages, as we will see beneath. Most notably, the question arises - what do you mean by 'peasant'? The 'peasant levy' is one of the more enduring myths about Medieval military service, but it isn't all there, as we will see from these previous posts.
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