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how did they police people in cities and towns back then... was it just castle guards or did they have a form of police?
 
grimkitty said:
how did they police people in cities and towns back then... was it just castle guards or did they have a form of police?
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Im not entirely sure,it was probably handled by the community to police itself,but i am certain that punishments were severe to keep people in line.
 
Ivan Moser said:
I was just at Medieval Times and saw the torture gear display they had. Did you know chastity belts even had a spiked enterance around the woman’s asshole?

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Medieval time was cool, but ancient Rome or Renassaince were even better to me
 
Sohei said:
It required a lot of physical strength to wield a longbow, as well as training. The pulley mechanism means that weaker people can use a crossbow.
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Otherwise known as Italians.
 
 
I'm sure we'd all hate living in anytime outside of the last 50 years.

Can you imagine living in a time before modern medicine?

Even living in the late 1800's, when they didn't know about germs, people died way too easily... nowadays most of the stuff that will kill you is preventable by simply taking care of yourself.

No, I'd much rather live in this day and age and think how interesting life must've been.
 
Nah, I'll pass. Not into having no AC and people stinking all day. I do like going to the RenFair quite a bit though. Hear some old timey accents, eat a leg of meat, watch some fake fighting, then back to the good new days.

Plus, you can't rock out to a damn lute.
 
ObsoleteSoul said:
Nah, I'll pass. Not into having no AC and people stinking all day. I do like going to the RenFair quite a bit though. Hear some old timey accents, eat a leg of meat, watch some fake fighting, then back to the good new days.

Plus, you can't rock out to a damn lute.
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No guitar solos in those times.
 
Blackthorne: Have you got a chair I can sit in?
"The Japanese dont use chairs,and there are none in Japan."

- Shogun by James Clavell
 
grimkitty said:
how did they police people in cities and towns back then... was it just castle guards or did they have a form of police?
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i think if you lived inside a giant castle or something there was some kind of guard to deal with troublemakers

but in towns and such there was nothing, if some guy stole your sheep and shit you had to go after him and stab him in the neck and burn his house to the ground with everyone inside as vengeance from the gods
 
ssBaldy said:
Double teaming knights, on the regular? I highly doubt that. Infantry? Sure, all the time.
Also there was a wide variety of special weapons for breaching armor. Misericordias, warhammers, Lucern hammers, swords with thick diamond shaped blades used exclusively for stabbing (hell if I know how you call it in English), and many other. So knights were very capable of killing one another one on one, but it took power, skill, and a well aimed and landed strike.

Agincourt was just a tad short of a miracle, me thinks.
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Estoc. The diamond shaped stabby bladed swords.
 
HHJ said:
Theres an excellent Michael Chrichton book called Timeline that had people teleport into France in 1347. It showed a realistic view of what would happen if you took a modern person and thrust them in that time. Extremely dangerous with no modern medicine in case you get injured or sick.
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LOL they also made a Paul Walker movie out of it. Awful is too nice.
 
Headkicktoleg said:
LOL they also made a Paul Walker movie out of it. Awful is too nice.
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Yeah unfortunatley alot of his books have been made into shitty movies. I havent seen it.
 
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