What was life like for Medieval mercenaries? For specifics of

>>2390559
Alright, got paid to rampage around the countryside raping women, looting and killing, might die but you might die doing anything in those times.

>>2390559
What I wonder is how long were their careers and what they did after, by forty or fifty they have to be near the end of their usefulness as front line solders. Would they have enough to retire? buy a small farm?

>>2390943
either that or they became alcoholics

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>>2390559
It doesn't end so well

>>2390559
>>2390943
mercenaries
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warfare and military organizations
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Thomson, Janice E. Mercenaries, Pirates, and Sovereigns: State-building and Extraterritorial Violence in Early Modern Europe. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994.
>A seminal political-science approach that carries on to the mid-19th century.

Prouteau, Nicolas. “Beneath the Battle? Miners and Engineers as Mercenaries in the Holy Land.” In Mercenaries and Paid Men: The Mercenary Identity in the Middle Ages. Edited by John France, 105–118. Leiden, The Netherlands: E. J. Brill, 2008.
>A study of miners and mining as used by both sides in the Middle East during the crusading period.