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For an astonishing account of the implications of war for non-combatants—despite the Treuga Dei—see Christopher Allmand, “War and the Non-Combatant in the Middle Ages”, in Maurice Keen, ed. (1999), Medieval Warfare, pp 253–272. The inference should not be drawn that the pitched battles were in fact confined to Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays, though it would be interesting to know if they were.