HIST 2220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: English Folklore, High Middle Ages
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Siege tower-- most common form of warfare during high middle ages: towers built to get over walls of enemy, look like things in return of the kings (lotr) Trebuchet-- mechanisms for hurling things: preceded cannon for breaking down gates and hurling things. Mounted combat warfare: objective to knock enemy on ground and beg for mercy rather than killing, knights could gain property of loser and gain livelihood. Pikes didn"t require large amount of skill to use; peasantry class could use easily without training. Mining used to dig under walls and collapse them during an attack. Tercios: by the early 1500s infantry included mixture of pike and shot, could be used by defensive and offensive sides, soldiers in front would fight then run to back to reload. Pikes could be around 23 feet long. Schiltrom was an offensive tactic used by the scottish: battle against edward the i and ii. Principle advantage over the crossbow was its rapid rate of firing.
