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Editor @AreoMagazine Secular, liberal humanist. Mother. Doglover. Writing book about epistemology & ethics on the academic left Helen.pluckrose@areomagazine.com

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    1. Reislaufer‏ @Reislaufer 2 May 2017
      Replying to @HPluckrose

      Actually, military service in the middle ages was primarily a privilege extended to those who could be trusted (and afford) to bear arms

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    2. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 2 May 2017
      Replying to @Reislaufer

      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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    3. Reislaufer‏ @Reislaufer 2 May 2017
      Replying to @HPluckrose

      Can you cite specific examples?

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    4. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 2 May 2017
      Replying to @Reislaufer

      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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    5. Reislaufer‏ @Reislaufer 2 May 2017
      Replying to @HPluckrose

      The levee en masse is a modern concept. Generally, medieval wars were fought by people with a vested stake in their society, or mercs.

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    6. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 2 May 2017
      Replying to @Reislaufer

      I know numbers in wars were often exaggerated by orders of magnitude &military historians have been showing this using pay records.

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      Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 2 May 2017
      Replying to @HPluckrose @Reislaufer

      So 10,000 men marched on X can actually mean 500.

      2:29 PM - 2 May 2017
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        1. Reislaufer‏ @Reislaufer 2 May 2017
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          Given 90% of casualties are noncombat, by the end of a long march, yes. Unless you're the Duke of Marlborough.

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        1. Reislaufer‏ @Reislaufer 2 May 2017
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          My salient point, however, is that military participation, throughout the dark ages into the middle, was a privilege.

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