In Medieval times people also played sports but not for the same reasons we do now. Although, in the middle ages they did enjoy sports for fun, that was not the main reason why they played sports. As you may notice, the sports played in Medieval times were based on fighting an opponent.
Lets take Jousting for instance, two people on hoarse back with long pointed sticks trying to knock each other off their horses. Usually, the sports played in Medieval times were contact sports and they were designed to teach better battle skills to each player. There were even laws passed in England about Archery and this helped lead to triumphs in battles. Not everyone had to know how to use a bow and arrow just the men. That law does not sound like a reasonable law because it forces one to learn a skill that teaches to hurt others. This can also be seen as self defense though. Whatever the case now that I am familiar with this law I know why people were so skilled at archery.
Being a skilled player at Jousting, Archery, or other Medieval sports could help raise social states for the common people and others. Isn't that interesting to be able to become wealthy through sports. Now a days we still have this it is called, a Professional. Except that the sports played now are simply, just for entertainment. The following link is much more descriptive if you would like to learn more http://www.middle-ages.org.uk/medieval-sports.htm
Sunday, October 10, 2010
Wk8_Medieval Times 2
Who doesn't like to eat? During the middle ages food had a different twist to it. The food that royalty ate was different from the one that the common people ate. However, some things were the same like the meats.
Royalty tended to eat the best of foods. They were lucky at the time because spices were being introduced to them. How lucky for them, although we can easily obtain them; it was much more difficult in their times to get any kind of spices.
I never knew that they ate so many different kinds of meats. They ate the following types of meat: pork, lamb, veil, venison, poultry, game, bear, hedgehog, hare, and rabbit. most of these meats are still eaten but some more than others. Although, not everybody could afford to eat meat everyday, it was mostly royalty who ate these different types of meat. The poor suffered everyday and ate what they could.
Another interesting thing I discovered was that you had to have some higher authority in order to hunt the better meat. Otherwise, if a peasant was found hunting a deer or something of the sort, that would be the end for him or her. It is amazing to see how some types of meat were valued more than others and how a regular person could be killed for hunting some type of precious animal (meat). It sounds hard to believe read it.http://www.middle-ages.org.uk/middle-ages-food-meat.htm
see it
http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.columbia.edu/cu/medieval/clip_image002.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.columbia.edu/cu/medieval/Conference_Flyer.htm&usg=__gu_QbFovG1PNEGI4Qc4K6CBKZdI=&h=336&w=500&sz=50&hl=en&start=0&sig2=LLKy0DeB387yxT1BPxYwfQ&zoom=1&tbnid=nqgsnVC1H2_87M:&tbnh=95&tbnw=142&ei=T3OyTPzlN4PCsAO_rrnbBA&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dmiddle%2Bages%2Bfood%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Dactive%26sa%3DX%26biw%3D880%26bih%3D453%26tbs%3Disch:1%26prmd%3Divb&itbs=1&iact=hc&vpx=522&vpy=162&dur=77&hovh=184&hovw=274&tx=146&ty=113&oei=T3OyTPzlN4PCsAO_rrnbBA&esq=1&page=1&ndsp=10&ved=1t:429,r:3,s:0
Royalty tended to eat the best of foods. They were lucky at the time because spices were being introduced to them. How lucky for them, although we can easily obtain them; it was much more difficult in their times to get any kind of spices.
I never knew that they ate so many different kinds of meats. They ate the following types of meat: pork, lamb, veil, venison, poultry, game, bear, hedgehog, hare, and rabbit. most of these meats are still eaten but some more than others. Although, not everybody could afford to eat meat everyday, it was mostly royalty who ate these different types of meat. The poor suffered everyday and ate what they could.
Another interesting thing I discovered was that you had to have some higher authority in order to hunt the better meat. Otherwise, if a peasant was found hunting a deer or something of the sort, that would be the end for him or her. It is amazing to see how some types of meat were valued more than others and how a regular person could be killed for hunting some type of precious animal (meat). It sounds hard to believe read it.http://www.middle-ages.org.uk/middle-ages-food-meat.htm
see it
http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.columbia.edu/cu/medieval/clip_image002.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.columbia.edu/cu/medieval/Conference_Flyer.htm&usg=__gu_QbFovG1PNEGI4Qc4K6CBKZdI=&h=336&w=500&sz=50&hl=en&start=0&sig2=LLKy0DeB387yxT1BPxYwfQ&zoom=1&tbnid=nqgsnVC1H2_87M:&tbnh=95&tbnw=142&ei=T3OyTPzlN4PCsAO_rrnbBA&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dmiddle%2Bages%2Bfood%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Dactive%26sa%3DX%26biw%3D880%26bih%3D453%26tbs%3Disch:1%26prmd%3Divb&itbs=1&iact=hc&vpx=522&vpy=162&dur=77&hovh=184&hovw=274&tx=146&ty=113&oei=T3OyTPzlN4PCsAO_rrnbBA&esq=1&page=1&ndsp=10&ved=1t:429,r:3,s:0
Wk8_Medieval Times 1
During the Middle ages, also known as Medieval Times medicine was a practice that failed to flourish. This was due to the fact that it was not so important at the time. People living in the middle ages had other things to be more worried about. The more important thing at the time was the soul.
The soul, was a precious thing for the Medieval people. It seemed as if they were more concern with how the soul was doing than with how they were doing. As weird as it may sound, these people thought if they could cure their soul then they could cure any disease that they had.
The diseases that they had back then are now easily cured with over the counter medicine that we have now a days. For this simple reason medicine was not of such importance to the Medieval people, curing the soul through prayer was their solution for sickness. If any interest was put into medicine then some advances could have been reached and far less people could have died during the middle ages.
Although, doctors were still around at the time; it was harder for a regular person to practice medicine. This would also explain why only people of higher statues could practice medicine. Also, priests and other women would practice medicine at a cost. They had to do it a certain way and the women mostly only practiced on women, unless they were licensed doctors. Looking at all these examples of doctors and medicine at the time, it is easy to see why people died of simple diseases like the Black Death. Here is a link it is a bit more specific; it has pictures to. http://library.thinkquest.org/15569/hist-6.html
The soul, was a precious thing for the Medieval people. It seemed as if they were more concern with how the soul was doing than with how they were doing. As weird as it may sound, these people thought if they could cure their soul then they could cure any disease that they had.
The diseases that they had back then are now easily cured with over the counter medicine that we have now a days. For this simple reason medicine was not of such importance to the Medieval people, curing the soul through prayer was their solution for sickness. If any interest was put into medicine then some advances could have been reached and far less people could have died during the middle ages.
Although, doctors were still around at the time; it was harder for a regular person to practice medicine. This would also explain why only people of higher statues could practice medicine. Also, priests and other women would practice medicine at a cost. They had to do it a certain way and the women mostly only practiced on women, unless they were licensed doctors. Looking at all these examples of doctors and medicine at the time, it is easy to see why people died of simple diseases like the Black Death. Here is a link it is a bit more specific; it has pictures to. http://library.thinkquest.org/15569/hist-6.html
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