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Service in labor, gifts, money, and produce, was regarded as menial or ignoble. Military service in the days of Karl the Great had been required of all freemen. The army was composed of the whole people under arms. As the use of cavalry was introduced and became general, and the prac- tice of wearing armor universal, it became impossible for everyone to equip himself with the required paraphernalia. Continuous and far-distant campaigns made it necessary for many people to remain at home to till... the soil. Karl the Great had the right to call his army together at any time, and demand their service in any part of the Empire, and for any length of time. By offering united resistance the vas- sals succeeded in acquiring two important limitations to this : they could be compelled to serve only forty days in the year, and only within a reasonable distance from their homes. Feudal armies could not be levied directly by the king ; I20 A SItort History of Medusval Europe Feudal he must first send the summons to his great vassals, with armies.
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