jousting
Sign in to saveJousting is a medieval and renaissance martial game or hastilude between two combatants either on horse or on foot. The joust became an iconic characteristic of the knight in Romantic medievalism.
Key facts
- Sport.name
- Jousting
- Sport.image
- Paulus Hector Mair Tjost fig2.jpg
- Sport.image_size
- 350px
- Sport.caption
- Renaissance-era depiction of a joust in traditional or "high" armour, based on then-historical late medieval armour (Paulus Hector Mair, De arte athletica, 1540s)
- Sport.first
- 14th century, Europe
- Sport.contact
- Yes
- Sport.type
- Hastilude
- Sport.venue
- Castles, tiltyards
- Sport.region
- Europe
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Article
16 sectionsContents
- History
- Medieval joust
- High Middle Ages
- Late Middle Ages
- Records of jousting by Froissart
- Arena, procedure and armor
- Horses
- 15th century
- Post-medieval period
- Modern revivals
- Modern-day jousting
- Competitive jousting
- See also
- References
- Sources
- External links
Jousting is a medieval and renaissance martial game or hastilude between two combatants either on horse or on foot. The joust became an iconic characteristic of the knight in Romantic medievalism.
The term is derived from Old French , ultimately from Latin "to approach, to meet". The word was loaned into Middle English around 1300, when jousting was a very popular sport among the Anglo-Norman knighthood. The synonym tilt (as in tilting at windmills) dates .