For classics twitter consideration (@BretDevereaux @ProfPaul_J ) (without rendering my own opinion, which is worth little).https://www.academia.edu/45455304/The_battle_mechanics_of_the_Hoplite_Phalanx?fbclid=IwAR0qEj5KHMEj2JGOyzy8-1bgwKNdiQqS2CvlzKYp4qrZLIPCAi-aJIKrjNs …
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The 'analogy with medieval knights' bit is one of those points where I can actually kind of see it as a comparison that could be valid and instructive, but only with a lot of explanation of what exactly is meant, where the analogy holds and where it fails.
'Their kit was expensive' provided here isn't quite enough to make the analogy work. A lot of urban militias, *in the middle ages* had expensive kits. What made knights different was the possession of skills linked to a specific, skill-heavy style of combat.
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At the very least, it ought to come with a proviso that the 'hoplite class' seems to have been far more extensive than the knightly class ever was. The Second Estate was c. 1.5% of pre-revolutionary France, for instance. Even the Spartiates are a bigger slice of the population.
Kiitos. Käytämme tätä aikajanasi parantamiseen. KumoaKumoa
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I think the patron/client and landlord/tenant relationships that seem to have existed early on are probably better grounds for drawing medieval parallels, with the rise of infantry (especially communal infantry) another useful parallel in developments.
Kiitos. Käytämme tätä aikajanasi parantamiseen. KumoaKumoa
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