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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. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Medieval Entertainment
Colin Shin7E 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.
Uses long stick to attack.Knights are on horses.
Nobles and wealthy enjoyed.
More Entertainment
Providers of entertainment: troubadours, minstrels, and jugglers.
Jesters and mummers also provided entertainment.
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).
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
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.
Games in Middle Ages
Chess, board games, dice games, and backgammon were popular.
Chess: game where you use strategy to capture opponent’s king.
Entertainment for Wealthy
Jousts and feasts: entertainment wealthy people particularly enjoyed.
Tournaments: popular; musicians: would provide musical entertainment.
Outdoor Entertainment
Popular games: archery, chess, colf, gameball, wrestling, and stoolball.
Gameball: football, colf: golf, stoolball: cricket.
Popular Instruments
Guitars
Drums
Citterns
Recorders
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.
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.
Thank you for watching!
Colin Shin 7E
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