Similarities and Differences between Medieval Tournaments and Modern Sports

Read the definition of “tournament.” Look at the 2 web sites. Write on the following topic:

In what ways are medieval tournaments similar to modern sports such as football, soccer, baseball, and son on? In what ways are they different?

Tournament, also called tourney, series of military exercises, probably of medieval French origin and confined to western Europe, in which knights fought one another to display their skill and courage.

See this source for images: https://www.britannica.com/sports/tournament-medieval-military-games

Source: https://www.artic.edu/departments/PC-6/arms-armor-medieval-and-renaissance

The tournament in its earliest form apparently originated in France about the middle of the 11th century.

The early tournament was a mock battle between two bodies of armed horsemen and was called the mêlée. (This term is also applied to a predecessor of modern football [soccer]. See mêlée.) Later came the joust, a trial of skill in which two horsemen charged each other with leveled lances from either end of the lists (the palisades enclosing the jousting ground), each attempting to unhorse the other; the mêlée, however, continued side by side with it.

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