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Medieval Entertainment

Medieval Entertainment. Colin Shin 7E SS Mr. Tabbara. Entertainment in Middle Ages. Entertainment: feasts, banquets, jousts, tournaments, mystery plays, fairs. Also: games, hunting, and hawking for entertainment. Jousts and Tournaments. Jousts: was competition between two kingiths.

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Medieval Entertainment

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  1. Medieval Entertainment Colin Shin 7E SS Mr. Tabbara

  2. Entertainment in Middle Ages • Entertainment: feasts, banquets, jousts, tournaments, mystery plays, fairs. • Also: games, hunting, and hawking for entertainment.

  3. Jousts and Tournaments • Jousts: was competition between two kingiths. • Uses long stick to attack. • Knights are on horses. • Nobles and wealthy enjoyed.

  4. More Entertainment • Providers of entertainment: troubadours, minstrels, and jugglers. • Jesters and mummers also provided entertainment.

  5. Troubadours and Minstrels • Troubadours: poet musicians that didn’t write religious poems. • Wrote about romances about knights and ladies. • They traveled from village to village. • Minstrels: entertainers for both upper and peasant classes. • Played songs about great battles and honor, (King Arthur).

  6. Jugglers, Jesters, Mummers • Jugglers: entertainers that used balls do entertain. • Jesters: a fool or buffoon at medieval courts • Mummers: masked or costumed merrymaker or dancers at festivals

  7. Major Holidays and Festivals • Holidays: Christmas, Easter, May Day, and completion of harvest. • Usual activities during holidays: music, games, and outdoor entertainment. • Minstrels and Troubadours: mainly produced music, chess popular.

  8. Games in Middle Ages • Chess, board games, dice games, and backgammon were popular. • Chess: game where you use strategy to capture opponent’s king.

  9. Entertainment for Wealthy • Jousts and feasts: entertainment wealthy people particularly enjoyed. • Tournaments: popular; musicians: would provide musical entertainment.

  10. Outdoor Entertainment • Popular games: archery, chess, colf, gameball, wrestling, and stoolball. • Gameball: football, colf: golf, stoolball: cricket.

  11. Popular Instruments • Guitars • Drums • Citterns • Recorders

  12. Medieval Music • Minstrels and troubadours produced music. • Music was popular, but church disapproved of some. • During the Medieval times: 2 types of music. • Sacred and Secular.

  13. More Medieval Music • Sacred music: mainly religious music, very slow, was in Latin. • Example: Gregorian Chant (mainly developed- 800 ~1000) • Secular music: discouraged by the church, not religious, not in Latin.

  14. Thank you for watching! •  Colin Shin 7E

  15. Wonderful, Helpful Sites • www.wikipedia.org • www.google.com • www.Images.google.com • http://www.middle-ages.org.uk/entertainment-middle-ages.htm • http://www.medieval-life.net/life_main.htm

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