Civilization During the Middle Ages: Especially in Relation to Modern ...
Civilization During the Middle Ages: Especially in Relation to Modern ...
Adams George Burton
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The simplest example of this process is the transformation of the citi- zen army into a feudal army, and this gives us also, in its main features, the history of the joining together of the benefice and vassalage. Originally neither of these primitive Boman institu- tions had, as it would seem, any especially military character. And this is, with an insignificant modifica- tion, as true of the Merovingian as of the Boman period. In such troubled times, however, as those which brought these inst...itutions into use, military service woxdd cer* THE FEXTDAL SY8TBM 207 bdiily be one of the most frequent services needed from the dependent, and apparently some of them at least weie constantly employed as an armed force, bnt there was, dnring the earlier period, no necessary connection of this military service with these relationships either of person or of land. The first beginnings of this con- nection were made at the opening of the Carolingian age nnder Charles Martel ; the completion of it — the estab- lishment of military service as the almost indispensable rule in feudalism — ^was hardly accomplished bd!ore the period ends.
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