jousting

Also known as jousteling

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.

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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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Contents

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
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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 .