tournament
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chivalrous competition or mock fight of the Middle Ages and Renaissance
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- Subclass of
- competition
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- René d'Anjou Livre des tournois France Provence XVe siècle Barthélemy d'Eyck.jpg
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- Tournaments
- different from
- tournament
- time period
- Middle Ages
- topic's main category
- Category:Medieval tournament
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Encyclopedic overview
An early 14th century depiction of mounted combat in a tournament from the German Codex Manesse
A tournament, or tourney (from Old French torneiement, tornei), was a chivalrous competition or mock fight that was common in the Middle Ages and Renaissance (12th to 16th centuries). It is a type of hastilude.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “tournament” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.