Actually, military service in the middle ages was primarily a privilege extended to those who could be trusted (and afford) to bear arms
In the feudal system there were those who fight, those who pray & those who work but any overlord could & did call up his tenants.
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Can you cite specific examples?
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It seems I can't which is significant but why then is there constant battle over whether there were more men than women or other way round..
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..because more men died in war or more women in childbirth & why is there so much talk of peasant women losing their husbands in war.
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And churches having to provide for widows & fatherless children?
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