One of the only sources of entertainment in the medieval days were tournaments. Tournaments were also a way for knights to improve in combat and recieve a prize for winning. The tournaments were both solo and team competitions. Whatever format the tournament had, the last knight standing would get the prize and glory. The day of the tournament was a big deal for everyone. The knights would would be in their best outfits and parade around for the spectators. Then the tournament would begin with the Grand Marshall reading the tournament rules and trumpet sounds. Tournament information was already in place weeks before the tournament. To help spread the information of the tournament people would talk to get the news around. Things that …show more content…
The joust usually had younger knights participating so they could gain experience and show off what skills they had. Later on, the joust was the main event of the tournament and everyone's favorite to watch. The joust had an interesting set of rules. The knights were allowed to charge each other four times and would use a lance for a weapon. The lance is weapon that resembles a spear and was used on horseback. The lance was designed to make sure that the knights would not seriously hurt each other. The lances were made out of a softer wood. The knights could still hurt each other with the lances but nothing over the top happened. They would charge at each other a total of four times. If there was not a clear winner then the participants would switch to using a mace. They would charge with maces for four more rounds and if they still could not determine a winner from that, they would go to the ground and fight with either maces or swords. After all of that if no one was cleary determined a winner they would take it to the judges. The judges would then determine the winner based off of skill and accuracy. The main event of the tournament was the melee and ended the tournament.
Morte d'Arthur, a knight is injured mortally and dies. When the squire of the knight
Experienced knights would participate in tournaments held by the king. The winner would usually just get bragging rights and sometimes a sum of money. The most common event was jousting. Jousting is a sport where to fully armored knights ride at each other on horses while aiming a long wooden lance at the each other. With speeds reaching 60 miles per hour sometimes there could be fatal accidents. If the person was knocked off the other was victorious.
A year passed quickly, and it was time I set out to meet the Knight to receive the return blow. On Christmas Eve I found myself a welcomed guest at the castle of Sir Bercilak. The whole time I was there I was unable to put my impending death at The Green Chapel out of my mind. Bercilak and I had a deal that whatever we won each day, we would turn over to the other. He hunted furiously while I rested at the castle. Each night he offered me the fruits of the hunt while I offered him no more than the kisses I received from his wife, which leads me to my next point.
The sports, games, and pastimes of the time of Queen Elizabeth were simple yet dangerous and brutal. Theater and some simple games were two pastimes that were rather peaceful compared to their gruesome counterparts (Spectator sports and individual activities). Blood sports were the most common and favorable of all of the activities, and back then, they were accepted and considered normal. In our time, however, they are thought to be inhumane and cruel.
Early one winter, before the change of the year, the King was hosting a fifteen day diversion for the noblest of knights and their fair ladies. Thronging the castle from far-away lands, eminent knights were jousting during the day, and feasting at night, when an adventure unrivaled by any other took
Once you see the Medieval Times Knight battle you will have a whole new appreciation for knights; a castle garden. It all started with the stairs. When it was time for the show to begin my family and I went to the grand staircase. Once we got there two trumpet players dressed in baggy pants and shirts started playing. Their trumpets were unusually long with banners on them. One banner had a lion's head on it and the other had a shield. The trumpet players played the most crisp and majestic sound I have ever heard. The sound rang through the castle and all of the crowds fell silent.
During the medieval times the social status and the rank of the citizens where very important in determining the obligations and restrictions of the people. When citizens jumped social class or stepped out of line, it was looked down upon by the other citizens. In the Knights tale some of the social class stereotypes are broken by characters such as Kate, William and Joselyn.
fastest, or the one with the most weapons. The winner, instead, is the one who
the day of the event, there were about ten to twenty four races. Just like today there were many
...f knighthood. The idea of the crusade, and the affiliated pilgrimage came to be regarded as temporary, adopted, migratory monastic life. Although none of the ideas of Robert, Guibert, and Baldric were new, in fact they were derived from the accounts of those who survived the first crusade, they romanticized the idea of the holy war and knighthood, making it more appealing to the common person, and more morally acceptable in religious circles.
Weapons training concentrated on sword and javelin. For sword training, recruits used a wooden sword and wicker shield, both twice the normal weight. More advanced training consisted of fighting in full armor, battle tactics and mach battles with the points of the swords and javelins covered to avoid serious injury.
Knights and their role in medieval society. Knights were an integral part of medieval society. They originally began with primitive warriors such as the Mongols who fought on horseback for added speed and power, but quickly advanced to chivalrous gentleman such as the Normans. Much has been written about medieval knights, with the most famous being a series of legends about King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table. Arthur and his knights were the ultimate example of what a perfect knight should have been.
Two books with a similar time period were those of The Nibelungenlied and Beowulf, both placed in 6th century Europe, one based in England and the other in Germany. Both cultures had a history of war, almost a passion for it. The English had no fear for what they might battle, and knew the consequences like every skilled knight should: "However great an army we take, the Queen has such dreadful ways that they would all have to die through her arrogance." (The Nigelungenlied, Ch. 6, pg. 54) But knights had to know the risk involved in being one of the best, and the sacrifices that needed to be made to put their country on top. And it has been shown that both cultures took pride in their work: "Then the king ordered eight gold-bridled horses to be led onto the floor, into the enclosure; on one of them was a saddle skillfully decorated, ornamented with jewels." (Beowulf, lines 1036-1038).