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  2. Infantry in the Middle Ages - Wikipedia

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    The rising importance of foot troops, thus, brought not only the opportunity but also the need to expand armies substantially. Thus as early as the late 13th century, we can observe Edward I campaigning at the head of armies incorporating tens of thousands of paid archers and spearmen.

  3. 13th century in music - Wikipedia

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    1227–34 – A Play of Daniel with music is written at the school of Beauvais Cathedral. 1235–39 – Theobald I of Navarre, "Seignor, sachiés, qui or ne s’en ira" (chanson de croisade) 1239 – Theobald I of Navarre, "Au tens plain de felonie" (chanson de croisade)

  4. History of infantry - Wikipedia

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    As firearms became more effective during the 17th century, the ratio of musket to pike was increased from a common standard of about 1:1 around the start of the 17th century to about 2:1 in the middle of the century, and 4:1 or even 6:1 by the end of the 17th century. Another trend was the thinning of infantry formations.

  5. Medieval music - Wikipedia

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    Medieval music encompasses the sacred and secular music of Western Europe during the Middle Ages, [1] from approximately the 6th to 15th centuries. It is the first and longest major era of Western classical music and is followed by the Renaissance music; the two eras comprise what musicologists generally term as early music, preceding the common practice period.

  6. Landsknecht - Wikipedia

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    Consisting predominantly of pikemen and supporting foot soldiers, their front line was formed by Doppelsöldner ("double-pay men") renowned for their use of Zweihänder and arquebus. They formed the bulk of the Holy Roman Empire's Imperial Army from the late 15th century to the early 17th century, fighting in the Habsburg-Valois wars , the ...

  7. Medieval warfare - Wikipedia

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    Hungarian raids in the 10th century. Before the battle of Lechfeld in 955 Medieval Europeans were vulnerable from the Nomadic style of war that came from the Hungarians.. In the earliest Middle Ages, it was the obligation of every noble to respond to the call to battle with his equipment, archers, and infantry.

  8. Routiers - Wikipedia

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    Although paid soldiers were known before the 12th century, the phenomenon of distinct bands (German Rotten, French routes) of mercenary soldiers, often mainly footsoldiers (spearmen, slingers, javelineers, archers and crossbowmen), appears to date from the mid 12th century. [2]

  9. Ars antiqua - Wikipedia

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    In the early Medieval music era, notation indicated the pitches of songs without indicating the rhythm that these notes should be sung in. The most famous music theorist of the first half of the 13th century, Johannes de Garlandia , was the author of the De Mensurabili Musica (c. 1240), the treatise which defined, and most completely elucidated ...