A tournament, or tourney (from Old French torneiement, tornei), was a chivalrous competition or mock fight that was common in the Middle Ages and Renaissance (12th to 16th centuries), and is a type of hastilude. Tournaments included mêlée, hand-to-hand combat, contests of strength or accuracy, and sometimes jousts.

2022年6月25日 · The “chivalry” of the twelfth century had used tournaments to promote themselves as a group, using “sport fighting” to assert their merit. Now non-nobles who could claim a military role demonstrated their importance through performances that grew out of their practical activity.

Knights in their finery take part in a royal tournament at St. Inglevert, France, in the 15th century. Renowned medieval knights such as Ramon Lull and Geoffroi de Charny charted a logical progression that would lead to a successful career as a knight.

An illustration of a Kolbenturnier in the Wappenbuch Conrads von Grünenberg.. The Kolbenturnier (or mace tournament) was a type of tournament in the fifteenth century in which competitors would try to batter each other and knock crests off of the helmets of their opponents. They were fought between small groups in limited fenced-in areas using only Kolben, or maces.

2018年5月7日 · The medieval tournament was a forum for European knights where they could practise and show off their military skills in activities such as jousting or the mêlée, indulge in a bit of pageantry, display...

Early medieval tournaments consisted of mêlées, mock battles between two bodies of armed horsemen; later both the mêlée and the joust took place at tournaments, and in the 15th century the joust tended to supersede the mêlée. Jousting fell from favour by the beginning of …

2022年8月7日 · In the following article, I would like to focus on the melee, the main event of a medieval tournament until the late 14th century. In the 15th century the joust, until then a supporting act of the tournaments pushed the melee into insignificance, more on the reasons for that and the 4 reasons why knights jousted in my article here .

2022年4月2日 · It is not surprising that tournaments in the Middle Ages were often organized haphazardly. It is assumed that any rules were only agreed upon once the participants had gathered. However, by the fifteenth century, we can see attempts to make a …

2024年3月11日 · Gradually organized into tournaments, jousting was a medieval combat of men on horseback who fought using a lance. Tournaments, a preferred pastime of nobles in the Middle Ages, experienced an extraordinary boom in France in the 12th century before spreading to Germany and England.

It is this century when the Medieval tournaments are touched by the elaborate grace of the Renaissance. Sophisticated artwork was decorating the armors, and the tournament became a pageantry full of splendor. In 1520, Jousts were held on the occasion of the meeting between Henri VIII and Francisc I.