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| Aug 13, 2017 at 5:16 | comment | added | Thucydides | I do think it hinges on the definition of "all kinds of men". More specifically I was thinking of how Henry V hired Yeoman archers for the French expedition which culminated in the Battle of Agincourt several centuries earlier, since these were the sorts of men in the middle ages who had the time and resources to devote to archery. Henry VIII was a Renaissance prince, and firearms were displacing archery because gunners needed far less training than archers. | |
| Aug 13, 2017 at 3:40 | comment | added | Willk | Take a look here @Thucydides. archery.mysaga.net/archlaws.html. Or maybe it turns on the definition of "all sorts of men". | |
| Aug 12, 2017 at 22:10 | comment | added | Thucydides | English and Welsh archers were more likely to be yeoman, not peasants. Peasants and serfs were literally tied to the land, as they had neither the resources to do more than farm for bare survival, or had no civil rights, or both. This gave them no time or opportunity to do the training required to do archery. | |
| Aug 11, 2017 at 23:09 | history | answered | Willk | CC BY-SA 3.0 |