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Mercenaries and Paid Men: The Mercenary Identity in the Middle Ages

By John France

Book information

Publisher
Brill Academic Publishers
Year
2008
ISBN
9004164472, 9789004164475
Open Library ID
OL16976156M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (4020993 bytes)
Series
Smithsonian History of Warfare 47
Pages
428\428
Topic
History
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Mercenaries have always had a poor press. Theirs is one of the world's oldest professions, but the very word has profoundly negative connotations of infidelity and ruthlessness. But if they were like this, were they so different from soldiers?

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