Medieval Entertainment

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Medieval Entertainment Colin Shin 7E SS Mr. Tabbara

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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 Presentation

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Medieval Entertainment

Colin Shin7E SS Mr. Tabbara

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Entertainment in Middle Ages

Entertainment: feasts, banquets, jousts, tournaments, mystery plays, fairs.

Also: games, hunting, and hawking for entertainment.

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Jousts and Tournaments

Jousts: was competition between two kingiths.

Uses long stick to attack.Knights are on horses.

Nobles and wealthy enjoyed.

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More Entertainment

Providers of entertainment: troubadours, minstrels, and jugglers.

Jesters and mummers also provided entertainment.

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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).

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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

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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.

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Games in Middle Ages

Chess, board games, dice games, and backgammon were popular.

Chess: game where you use strategy to capture opponent’s king.

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Entertainment for Wealthy

Jousts and feasts: entertainment wealthy people particularly enjoyed.

Tournaments: popular; musicians: would provide musical entertainment.

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Outdoor Entertainment

Popular games: archery, chess, colf, gameball, wrestling, and stoolball.

Gameball: football, colf: golf, stoolball: cricket.

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Popular Instruments

Guitars

Drums

Citterns

Recorders

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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.

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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.

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Thank you for watching!

Colin Shin 7E

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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