The old, landed gentry sought to differentiate themselves from these new arrivals and coined the term men-at-arms.įreed from the need to work and protect their land, Men-at-Arms were able to focus exclusively on their martial pursuits, allowing them to march on extended campaigns and travel in search of employment, ensuring that sufficient trained men were available to all commanders with the coin to spend in securing their services.
FEUDAL KINGDOMS BECAME THE NORM PROFESSIONAL
Scutage, payment to one's lord in lieu of military service, became the norm and professional soldiers who fought for coin quickly emerged to fill the void. Thereafter the relationship between lord and vassal become more a relationship between landlord and tenant. In some European locations, feudalism persisted into the 18th and 19th centuries. By the beginning of the 14th century, the feudal system in England was in decline the Black Death (13481350) causing mass depopulation, is widely held to signal the effective end of feudalism. The complete end of feudalism did not happen quickly and often took several hundred years. One of the significant changes was the slow breakdown of feudalism. Even in the mid 20thC, many tenament blocks were still without proper sanitation. Although the spread of tap water was very slow.
The sergeants were tied to their land and the growing military needs of the empire could no longer be met by men who could not travel or establish long-term garrisons because they needed to tend to their fields. Starting in the 14th century, Europe underwent a social, political, and economic revival. Answer (1 of 6): Purified tap water was first introduced in London around 1829/1830. As time wore on and the Hundred Kingdoms prospered, the old fashioned feudal military service was slowly abandoned.
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