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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Agback" data-source="post: 996347" data-attributes="member: 5328">Twaddle!Peasants were forbidden explicit weapons only at a few place and times. In most of the mediaeval period everywhere, and in most places throughout the mediaeval period (for example in England), peasants were compelled by law to own and maintain weapons, so that they could be called up for the army (in England, the fyrd and its successors). In some places and in some periods (at least as often as peasants were forbidden weapons), peasants were even compelled to train regularly with their weapons (eg. practice with their longbows after Church on Sunday), and sometimes to present themselves regularly (eg. at an annual wapentake with their weapons ready for inspection, formed up into units.Regards,Agback</blockquote>