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How or why did the English become a bow culture?
SimonUK:
Maybe the english bow culture is simply more famous. Those big battles have been well documented in history and turned into shakespeare plays and films etc.
By the way, I think the population of england in the middle ages was quite small ....3 milliion or something?
axel:
yes your bow culture is more famous, you have so many good actors and writers... lol
3 milion cant be true...? or...
SimonUK:
Here's a quote from the following website about the black death in the middle ages http://www.britainexpress.com/History/medieval/black-death.htm
'Over the next 2 years the disease killed between 30-40% of the entire population. Given that the pre-plague population of England was in the range of 5-6 million people, fatalities may have reached as high as 2 million dead.'
Len:
Hi guys, I think its worth noting that in England nearly the whole society was involved in some way with archery. The amount of archery related production is staggering, for example, in 1359 ( a year of peace) 850,000 arrows, 20,000 bows and50,000 bowstrings were collected and sent to the Tower of London. And still today there are people with the surname Fletcher for example to remind us of how many people must have been needed to keep the archer armies in the field.
Yeomanbowman:
--- Quote from: axel on July 02, 2007, 12:46:19 pm ---Trying to say that britain isn't really more of a bowculture than many other.
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Not really Britain, Scotland and Ireland cannot be included in this as they did not really take to the bow during this period.
Jeremy
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