The World of Knights in the Contado of Perugia in the Middle Ages (Second Half of the 13th Century)
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https://doi.org/10.6093/1593-2214/13629Keywords:
Middle Ages, 12th-13th centuries, Italy, Perugia, Knights, Rural lordship, comitatus, Cavalry, CommuneAbstract
Documentation shows that in the Perugia area, the rural knights consisted of two main components: the numerically predominant one was composed of comitatini who, in addition to possessing the means to raise and maintain horses, could use them on the battlefield. The other group, which included the milites in the strict sense, belonged to the seigneurial class, albeit at the lowest level, and therefore were strictly distinct from other mounted combatants. However, overall, they were a minority and marginal component of the population capable of bearing arms. Overall, however, they constituted a minority and marginal component of the population capable of bearing arms. All this emerges from the data concerning the size of the communal army at the time of its mobilization during the conflict that opposed Perugia to Foligno in 1282-3, while little or nothing is known about what the situation was in the preceding period
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