06-11-2022, 09:59 AM
(06-11-2022, 06:20 AM)JHG Wrote: There wasn't a "draft" or "conscription" in Medieval Europe. Xiran Jay Zhao explains this in their historical analyses of the Disney Mulan films but remember this levy based system works for Medieval Europe just as well for Imperial China. Basically, there is the warrior class called knights who depending on the time period were either heavy cavalry or a combination of that and mounted infantry. The medieval foot soldiers had to provide for their own equipment like armor and weapons and generally only went to war if their overlord summoned them to.
Doesn't surprise me, really - the concept of a 'draft' doesn't really fit into the feudal system, where the monarch wouldn't have the power to impose one .
(Of course, not every realm was feudal - there were the merchant republics, for example - but I guess a lot of their men were too busy trading to be drafted into war )
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