How did they live

The medieval soldier as we know him from movies and illustrated books doesn’t ,all the time, matches the reality. The armored knight was, indeed, a fact of the crusades and other wars of early middle ages. But by the late 14th century the knight, which usually was a nobble, found something else to do then go to war. He, then, hired somebody else to do the job. So, most of the former peasants that before were forced to fight for their master were now paid to do so. As they didn’t have much money to pay for a heavy iron outfit, which,anyway, was very inconvenient in the combat, he made himself a light weight suit with matching accessories. The soldier on the late middle ages wore a quilted jack made from multilayered canvas. The head was covered with a sallet helmet. This helmet had, in the back, a peak to protect the neck and in the front a visor that was lowered only in the battles to protect the face and the eyes. He wore sheepskin mitten and over it he wore mitten gauntlet m