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Medieval sports consisted of jousting, sword fighting, etc. Modern day sports is more team oriented such as, football, Basketball, etc.
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Sports of the Middle Ages included all sorts of things we would recognize today, including various forms of billiards, Bowling, Golf, football, and a number of others. The biggest difference was that the rules were not written down, and sometimes were virtually nonexistent.
One of the forms of football, for example, was sometimes played with no limit to the number of players on either side. It was called mob football, and was often played in the middle of a town, with no apologies to passers by, who might get drafted into the home team, if they were local.
Jousting was done in the Middle Ages, and was more important than the exhibitions we see occasionally today. But that sort of thing was only played by knights, and common people were left out. It was something for the historians to talk about, but quite probably most competitions involved the common folk.
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Who would play sports in the medieval times?
1st Answer:Sports as we know it wasn't done in the middle ages. There weren't "teams" and a national fever about sports. The sports were hawking, hunting, wrestling, weapons practive, foot races, dice games, horse races, checkers, chess, blind man's bluff, and chess were played by the noblity.2nd Answer:I think anyone could play sports in the Middle Ages, just as they can today. There was really very little in the way of restrictions except for sports like jousting, which were only open to knights. But there were a lot of sports available, and many of them were really open to anyone.Please see the related question below for information on medieval sports.
What role did magic play in the lives of ordinary people in the Middle Ages?
They believed in it but they belived it was evil. the only magic that they beleived was good was the power of god and stuff like that.
What was football like in the Middle Ages?
Answerthey didn't have football in medieval times. AnswerIn the Middle Ages, people played football using an inflate pig's bladder as the ball. There were very few rules, and they could have used anything else that was handy. For more information, use the link below.
Keyboard music in the middle ages?
AnswerNone. Not invented until much later. Flutes, drums, and string were used. AnswerKeyboard instruments were invented long before the Middle Ages, even before the Roman Empire started, and were in use through the entire medieval period. The earliest true organ was the Greek hydraulis, which existed at least 2300 years ago.During the Middle Ages, the portative organ (imagine an accordion, but with pipes) and the positive organ (church organ) were used.There was not much, if anything, written specifically for keyboard during the Middle Ages, because music was conceived of as being for voices, and the instruments were regarded as types of voices. In fact the idea that purely instrumental music could be played was rather a scandelous novelty when it happened. In the Late Middle Ages, an organist's job included figuring out how to play different voices simultaneously.There are links below.
What were forms of entertainment during the middle ages?
Mainly the only type of play that was done were the church passion plays telling the bible stories. People couldn't write for the most part so plays weren't written. The main entrainment was jesters, jugglers, singers when there were festivals.
