Jousting

The middle ages had sports. These sports consist of archery, bowls, gameball, hammer throwing, hurling or shinty, horseshoes, jousting at tournaments, quarter, skittles, stoolball, and Irish stick fighting. The medieval sports was played by mostly by noble. Games such as jousting were only played by nobles. The games was played by all but the most of them were played by the nobles. Medieval ages was designed to provide weapon practice. This was to also increase the man’s fitness. The reason for…

would have probably been crazy as death was possible. Many knights and royals would compete in these events. The King and the Queen would have reserved seats to watch a jousting match and peasants would cramp themselves behind barriers to watch. All the men competing would anxiously wait to find out who is jousting against who. Jousting is a sport that helps people and their families be recognised by someone higher up the social pyramid than them. Each jouster would hold a shield when in battle…

gambling. Even though Elizabethan sports were dangerous and life threatening, it was a huge part of the entertainment industry during the Elizabethan era. During the Elizabethan era there was a variety of sports played and created. Including fencing, jousting, hunting, and archery. In fencing, contestants required great skills with the sword. “To fence effectively it took time, practice and effort”. The process of being able to fence was quite complicated. First, one starts as a ‘Page’ the age…

deal with his life. His fate was to become a thatcher but he was able to change this, he persevered and worked through many obstacles to have the ability to change this. He was able to become a knight, find his father, and defeat Adhemar in the last jousting battle. As a child his father left William with King Hector, he told William to change his stars so that he could live a better life than he ever did. William did exactly what his father told him. Once he had grown up, he took it upon…

Jousting is where two knights are on two different horses running at each other, holding a jousting weapon called a lance. Kind of like we run, workout, and play sports to keep in shape today but it's not so we will ready for battle, besides the military men and women. In the article “Jousting,” “The tournaments kept the knights in excellent condition for the role he would need to play during medieval…

A Knight’s Tale is about three friends who pursued the challenge of jousting after their master, Sir Ector, died. William Thatcher took his dead master’s armor and went on to win his first tournament. As William, Roland, and Wat went on to compete in many more tournaments, William meets Jocelyn and instantaneously falls in love with her. William Thatcher was born in the Cheapside borough of London in the early 1350’s. Even though he was not very wealthy, he had always dreamed of being a knight.…

of a film. A classic theme for sports films is the triumph of an individual or team who prevail despite the difficulties. The sport that the film is talking about is obviously jousting. Jousting is not like any sport we can see or play today. Jousting is a sport that is only played during the medieval times. This jousting game is game for knights only. The purpose of the game is to see which knight is the strongest knight. Well, the reason I say the film is a sports film is because of its plot.…

social structure was set up in the Middle Ages. Without knights, the world may not have evolved the way it did. The Code of Conduct is in place for everyone in today’s time. You are to treat everyone with respect and to be loyal and courageous. Also, Jousting may have led to other sports such as fencing. Feudalism can be seen as quite similar to Clientage. This system was used in ancient Rome. Clientage is where a leader promises goods or money for political support. Feudalism is where a leader…

because of all of the literature and craft classes they take. The Knights however have a lower IQ because they are not required to take part in the strenuous academic criteria as the samurais. The way knights could gain ranking points was by winning jousting competitions, whereas the Samurais did not gain rank like that. Instead, they gained rank by participating in battles. It also had to do with the rank of the lord that they are serving under. When it came to religion, the Samurais ways were…

Life during the medieval period was either great or very difficult. This depended on a person's family history and their classification. Ruling, clergy, middle, and peasant were the four main types of classifications during the medieval times. People in the ruling and the clergy class usually had the best of everything, so their lives were great. Life was very difficult for the middle- class people and the peasants. Most of them did not have much at all. Many peasants would go days without…