What was being in a medieval Battle like?

Much like the lives of medieval executioners, medieval soldiers witnessed blood, carnage, and death on an up-close-and-personal level. Accounts of the great medieval battles not only detail soldiers’ lives and the conditions they faced, but also reveal the damage they inflicted on their enemies and noncombatants alike.

What is the difference between medieval battles and modern battles?

A medieval or ancient battle of three hour might be the result of a three month long campaign in which people could have only minimal contact with enemy soldiers while a modern soldier in Stalingrad might end up fighting for every inch of ground over the period of three months. This makes a direct comparison rather hard.

How did medieval warfare change during the Middle Ages?

Later on though, during the high and late middle ages, the European war-machines became more sofisticated, the population increased and the middle class arose and took part in non-equestrian battles using pikes and other less glorious but as much effective weapons. This led to large scale battles with more casualties on the ill equiped.

What was the level of violence in the Middle Ages?

An exceptional case, even by medieval standards, is provided by 14th‑century Oxford. Levels of violence there were considered unacceptably high by contemporaries: in the 1340s, the homicide rate was around 110 per 100,000. (In the UK in 2011, it was 1 per 100,000.) Why were levels of interpersonal violence so high in the Middle Ages?

Were our medieval ancestors just as brutal as we are today?

Yet, says historian Hannah Skoda, our medieval ancestors were just as appalled by wanton acts of brutality as we are today… In the 1300s in northern France, a nasty character named Jacquemon bribed a jailer to let his unwanted son-in-law die a painful death in prison.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5X3X66u9-I