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Jan 19, 2010 · Men At Arms: (Discworld Novel 15) (Discworld series) - Kindle edition by Pratchett, Terry. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Men At Arms: (Discworld Novel 15) (Discworld series).
- Terry Pratchett
Men At Arms: (Discworld Novel 15) (Discworld series) Kindle Edition. by Terry Pratchett (Author) Format: Kindle Edition. 4.8 9,876 ratings. Part of: Discworld (41 books) See all formats and editions. 'PEOPLE OUGHT TO THINK FOR THEMSELVES ... THE PROBLEM IS, PEOPLE ONLY THINK FOR THEMSELVES IF YOU TELL THEM TO.'.
- Terry Pratchett
Feb 2, 2015 · Men-at-arms is a weird and fluid term which is almost impossible to define, it was used by fourteenth- and fifteenth-century authors to address audiences which definitely included dubbed knights, and it was one which was used in practical documents to describe undubbed individuals or groups who were performing knightly military duties.
Men at Arms is a captivating and thought-provoking novel written by renowned British author Terry Pratchett. It is the fifteenth installment in his highly acclaimed Discworld series, an extensive collection of satirical and humorous fantasy novels set on a flat planet supported by four elephants that stand on the back of a giant turtle.
Armament of men-at-arms includes axes, daggers, longaxes, spears, swords, and warhammers. Some use shields. They can be mounted on horses or march on foot. Men-at-arms can also serve as warriors on the decks of ships.
Man-at-arms (also called armsman or coistrel) was a term used from the High Medieval to Renaissance periods to describe a soldier, almost always a professional warrior in the sense of being well-trained in the use of arms, who served as a fully armoured heavy cavalryman.
A company of Bretonnian men-at-arms in combat. Men-at-arms are the most basic heavy infantry of the line fielded by the armies of Bretonnia. Those men-at-arms who are equipped with longspears are instead known as "spearmen-at-arms."
