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Some books I'd recommend would be: Kemp: The Road to Crecy by Daniel Hall. Follows the progress of a serf who ends up as a bowman in the English army. Quite a good read and a lot of detail/angst about being tied to the land serving a feudal lord who's a complete idiot... the follow-up...

Good question... IMHO I would suggest it depends on the society and the Churches of each world/campaign-setting... if you think about an archetypal high-ranking cleric from this world's past, then their piety often had little to do with their rank.. take very worldly men like Cardinals Wolsey...

143. Blood Red Roses: The Archaeology of a Mass Grave from the Battle of Towton AD 1461 - Fiorato, Boylston & Knusel (eds) - if you want to get an insight into the true effects of medieval weapons on a body... Fascinating but very, very grim....

What comes to my mind instantly when thinking of Bronze Age-style campaign are bendy/brittle weapons.. I recall seeing a demonstration of a bronze sword being used to cut a roll of matting and the weapon bent around it like a roll of wet newspaper :) As kengar wrote, RuneQuest was set in a world...