. Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance. and the arrow of the Goths had beenreplaced by the spear, the javelin, the helmet, and the cuirass of the old soldiers received from the royal treasury for their services as in-structors a particular grant, which was annually paid to them till they retiredaltogether from the profession of arms. When the troops were about to takethe field, the intendants, under the orders of the counts, superintended thecommissariat and the gathering and the march of the different army provincial officers
. Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance. and the arrow of the Goths had beenreplaced by the spear, the javelin, the helmet, and the cuirass of the old soldiers received from the royal treasury for their services as in-structors a particular grant, which was annually paid to them till they retiredaltogether from the profession of arms. When the troops were about to takethe field, the intendants, under the orders of the counts, superintended thecommissariat and the gathering and the march of the different army provincial officers had to distribute arms, food, and hay on the different G + 2 WAR AND ARMIES. points of the road that the troops were expected to follow, and the inha-bitants had to provide lodgings—this was the only military service expectedof them, but none could escape it. The towns were at this time almost always fortified, and entrenchedcamps covered nearly the whole of Italy. The castles in the rural districts,constructed to protect the frontiers, were usually full of troops, whose support. Fig. 35.—Military Costume from the Sixth to the Tenth Centuries.—From a Miniature in theDialogues do Saint Gregoire, Manuscript of the Eleventh Century (National Library ofParis). was part of the duty of the pretorial prefect, and whose insubordination oftennecessitated severe measures of repression. Keep up a spirit of militarydiscipline ; it is often difficult to enforce it under civil rule, said Theodoricto Servatus, one of his generals. If it is a matter of surprise to meet with such a right moral feeling in thesovereign of reputed barbarians, barbarians half civilised, however, by their WAR AND ARMIES. 43 contact with the Latin race, it is not the less so to find, in the wars whichoccurred in the years 507, 508, and 509, other barbarian kings, namely,Alaric, Clovis, Gondebaud, and Thierry, make use of and apply with skillthe rules of Greco-Roman strategy, either in executing long militaryma
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