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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FieserMoep" data-source="post: 7301687" data-attributes="member: 6919650">As with late medieval times I actually meant the late middle ages. The so called high middles ages where in between as long as far as the consensus of the german mediävistik or english Medieval studies are concerned. As for the early middle ages that fully blown idea of knightship goes a bit to far and I wonder what literature you refer to here, given we don't really have that much for that time frame. Idealized court novels pretty much appeared in the high middle ages.  As fort he language thing: Please explain this further. Ofc it does mean something different to an american, they did not even have any medieval Knights. I am no expert in the swedish language, but do the term Knight and Ritter coexist there? Because they don't in german or english as far as I can deduct from historic literature so they would not have a different connotation for they were, if you attempted to translate, pretty much interchangeable.As for the 30 years war, that was just an excursus to portray the difference that would later come regarding the widespread impact of mercenaries on the local area. I thought that was clear. Also I made rather clear that most of my input was especially about the late medieval ages, rather than the few centuries we have here. Yet especially for the 100 years war, mercenaries played major parts on both sides though the idea was not as widespread as it later would become and I focused on.In the end the thing that intruigued me was the general apathy regarding mercenaries comparing them to such low standards for there are plenty of quite big cases that show them in different light, and especially as I said in the late medieval ages when they became widespread and professionalized.PS: Does your connotation of Knight and Ritter boil from a modern perspective where English is quite widespread in northern countries and may transport the romanticized meaning of knight while there may still be "bad" associations with knights regarding the Christianization and Conquest of northern countries by germanic neighbors like the teutonic knights? Though that would not go as far as sweden. I wonder because Ritter is just as romanticized as knight is in any native language that utilizes this word I had contact to so far. And with that I refer to "Ritter" regarding all the sound shifts in language and what not. I guess for swedish it is riddare?</blockquote>

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