David Bacharach, the author of the article I linked to in my previous post on benefices has another article on medievalists. net which looks at how Carolinian soldiers and armies were trained. This is based both on chronicle accounts and on a training manual, partially based on Vegetius, and compiled by Rabanus Maurus the Archbishop of Mainz. Useful for a ninth century monarch to have an archbishop writing about how best to kill your opponents on the battlefield…apparently thirsting with a sword is more effective and efficient than slashing. Good to know that.
The illustrated article can be read at How Carolingian Soldiers Learned to Fight
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