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Re:Could a Peasant Defeat a Knight in Battle? by jacobolus on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @01:36AM (#25043338)
My impression is that chivalry was more about relations between nobles than anything to do with peasants.

Feudal lords have pretty much always taken whatever liberties they like with the local people: rape, theft, property destruction, murder, torture, kidnapping, ...

Medieval knights were little different than the thug soldiers of any modern criminal gang, except less checked by state power.

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Re:Could a Peasant Defeat a Knight in Battle? by questionfor on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @03:52AM (#25043956)
Barbara Tuchman’s “A Distant Mirror” portrays feudal wars as essentially raids to kill some of your neighbor’s peasants rather than your neighbor (who was most likely your relative)
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