"The gentleman is riding, jousting, running spears, going armed to take part in tournaments, make round tables, fencing, hunting deer, bears, boars, lions and other things like profession they are gentlemen, for by all the knights are accustomed to deeds of arms and maintain the Order of Chivalry ". The Book of the Order of the Knights of Ramon Llull explains the fundamental reasons why, for much of the Middle Ages, armed clashes between knights had become the main occupation of the European aristocracy in peacetime, in addition to the dazzling spectacle of the time people could come to look ever. Some of these reasons are quite obvious, being originally conceived as mere activities martial training. Others, however, are not so and we understand ourselves in the place of those who lived at a time dull and monotonous, immersed in a state that today we might consider next to misery. The tournaments held on the occasion of diplomatic meetings, coronations, weddings, receptions actual or expected to military campaigns, replete with music, banquets and dances, were brief interludes of color for a largely rural society, in which besides the violence that threatened the newspaper had been domesticated, becoming mere amusement. Moreover, if we consider that your organization performed meticulously for months, represented a huge economic cost to the sponsors, we glimpse other transcendental motives for simply because be: the glitz of the feudal nobility of its own military and economic power, the very sustenance of social order ...
Article published in the journal report and posted on the site of Armatura, academia weapons. The third and last part of a small cycle focused on three phenomena "sporting" major Western martial tradition: the Greek wrestling competitions, shows and gladiator jousting tournaments.
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