Quote:Lots of men with sticks (pikes) could really do damage to a knight and his horse.
"Trained men" with pikes...not pitchforks...could stop a cavalry charge. But in reality an untrained mob would see a column of heavy cavalry bearing down on them, shit their pants, and run like hell. Like I said, this is not Hollywood.
Quote:The peasants didn't get any fancy tombs.
They never did. The vast bulk of the population had a pretty shitty life.