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@bob The correct answer is "they didn't wear medieval armour" - I can name on one hand the number of historical incidences of women combatants we can actually verify. Suggesting otherwise to appeal to modern sensibilities is literally historical revisionism.
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@gameragodzilla @bob The general consensus amongst historians is Jeanne D'Arc didn't fight.
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@maiyannah Ah. So was she mostly a general or were her accomplishments mostly a myth?
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@gameragodzilla She was generally a religious woman who claimed to have visions from God being exploited by the men of the time to further their personal ambitions.
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@maiyannah Ah. So which are women who actually did fight in medieval wars?
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@gameragodzilla The one example of this on any scale in medieval times - albeit very early in the age - which is documented and verified, was the roman practice of having women slaves fight just as much as the men in Legion auxiliary units. If you were able bodied, enslaved by the Romans, and strong, then you were either labouring or fighting.
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@maiyannah I guess those people just had minimal protection and armed with spears.
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@gameragodzilla Even the best of the roman army had very minimal protection compared to the example of a medieval knight that would emerge. Knights were basically the tanks of their time.
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@maiyannah True. Were there any female knights? I assume knights were pretty much all male considering they were derived from the upper classes.
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@gameragodzilla By definition they couldn't be until some time after the magna carta since those not of the gentry could not hold land and a knight by definition was assigned a fief of land from their given lord or lady. The exceptions for women were much higher up - and noblewomen weren't out there fighting any more than most noblemen were.
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@maiyannah So any female knight is revisionism in some form?
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@gameragodzilla A very few examples come up here and there in nordic literature, but between the dark ages until the late medieval period, the catholic church did a really good job of suppressing women.
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@maiyannah Well gender roles were quite strict back in the day.
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@gameragodzilla They varied by culture, but the culture the Catholic Church imposed on much of the known world at the time was one whereby women were in domestic roles.
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@maiyannah Nords were the vikings right? Which specific examples are there for them?
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@gameragodzilla More accurately vikings were nord gangstas
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@gameragodzilla Consensus amongst historians is that the "gods" of nordic mythology have their genesis in retellings of the tales of prominent historical figures in their time. Stories that became myths that became a sort of pseudoreligion (to say it was an organized belief is a bit misleading at best)
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@maiyannah @gameragodzilla Jesus was the first sandgraper
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@maiyannah Ah, would explain where their pantheon came from.
Unless... https://community.highlandarrow.com/attachment/176946
