WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Definition. The Medieval Tournament was a forum for European knights where they could practise and show off their military skills in activities such as jousting or the mêlée, indulge in a bit of pageantry, display their chivalrous qualities and win both riches and glory.

Detailed explanation-2: -Tournaments included mêlée and hand-to-hand combat (weapons were often blunted to prevent serious injury), contests of strength or accuracy, and sometimes jousts. Some thought that the tournaments were a threat to public order.

Detailed explanation-3: -Tournaments were pretend battles between groups of knights. When a town or area would have a tournament they would invite knights from other areas. Typically the local knights fought against the knights from outside the area. The battle took place on a large field.

Detailed explanation-4: -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.

Detailed explanation-5: -Jousting is when two knights, fully decked out in very heavy armor, charge at each other on horseback with big sticks called lances. And they do it all while trying to hit each other as hard as possible.

Detailed explanation-6: -The joust became an iconic characteristic of the knight in Romantic medievalism. The participants of a joust on horseback experience close to three and a quarter times their body weight in G-forces when the lances collide with their armour.