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  2. Jousting - Wikipedia

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    Jousting is a medieval and renaissance martial game or hastilude between two combatants either on horse or on foot. [1] The joust became an iconic characteristic of the knight in Romantic medievalism. The term is derived from Old French joster, ultimately from Latin iuxtare "to approach, to meet".

  3. Destrier - Wikipedia

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    An analysis of medieval horse armour located in the Royal Armouries indicates the equipment was originally worn by horses of 15 to 16 hands (60 to 64 inches, 152 to 163 cm), [9] about the size and build of a modern field hunter or ordinary riding horse.

  4. Horses in the Middle Ages - Wikipedia

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    Horses were specially bred for the joust, and heavier horse armour developed. However, this did not necessarily lead to significantly larger horses. Interpreters at the Royal Armouries, Leeds, re-created the joust, using specially bred horses and replica armour. Their horses accurately represented the medieval mount, being compactly built and ...

  5. Tournament (medieval) - Wikipedia

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    Melee (/ ˈ m eɪ l eɪ / or /ˈmeleɪ/, French: mêlée; in English frequently spelled as mêlée, melée, or simply melee) is a term for a type of mock combat in medieval tournaments. [11] [12] [13] The "mêlée" was the "mass tournament" where two teams, either on foot or horse, clashed in formation. The aim was to smash into the enemy in ...

  6. Hobby horse - Wikipedia

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    Tourney horses are meant to look like a person riding a small horse that is wearing a long cloth coat or caparison (as seen in medieval illustrations of jousting knights at a tourney or tournament). A circular or oval frame is suspended around their waist, or chest, with a skirt draped over it hanging down to the ground.

  7. File:Jousting horse, funeral procession of Archduke Albert ...

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    Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 19:58, 8 November 2018: 2,147 × 1,788 (1.67 MB): BeatrixBelibaste: File:Plate 51- Members of the court of justice marching in the funeral procession of Archduke Albert of Austria; from 'Pompa Funebris ...

  8. Running at the ring - Wikipedia

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    Running at the ring, usually referred to as a ring tournament, ring jousting, or simply as jousting, has been practiced in parts of the American South since at least the 1840s. Ring tournaments are still held in Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina, but most frequently in Maryland, [ 12 ] which made this form of jousting ...

  9. Eglinton Tournament - Wikipedia

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    The family sold the Earl of Eglinton's own armour during the 1925 sale of the castle contents. [ 57 ] The remnants of the tournament were sold off at a public auction and the glasses and crystal used in the marquees for the medieval ball and feast were sold off soon after.

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