Ep 182 - Episode Request: A Day in the Life of a Tourney Knight
Added 2024-08-30 12:00:13 +0000 UTCpatrons, here is your ad-free version of this week's regular episode. we answer questions from Nem1874 and Mansa Musa's Nipple Rings. episode topic requested by Gaffsey.
folks, after consulting our very own sacred chickens, we decided to turn a few of these patron episode requests into a short series, focusing on a Day in the Life of various medieval European people. Last week was the peasant farmer, and this time, it's the High and Late Medieval tournament knight. we discuss the differences between earlier conceptions of knights, the whole chivalry thing, jousting as a social phenomenon, and what it's like to be knight tilting on the jousts. because if there's one thing humans have always loved, it's watching other humans run headlong into each other and develop lifelong but vague allegiances because of it. thanks to our patron Gaffsey for the question.
link to Eleanor's History Hit video on Medieval sports and tourneys: https://youtu.be/909Bo9_1jOU?si=0vT4zlJocoifvOZX
Comments
There's been a pretty concerted effort to get competitive juggling into the Olympics already. The jesters can't be _that_ far behind
Do Golems Dream of Ceramic Sheep
2024-09-03 13:30:33 +0000 UTCOff to write to my new Labour MP to see if they’ve already turned into the same sort of useless lobby fodder that we voted out in July. Quite fancy the idea of competitive jesting being brought into the Olympics.
Mike Richards
2024-09-02 11:36:41 +0000 UTCReally enjoying these deep dives!
Peter Mountain
2024-08-31 22:20:35 +0000 UTC
