JOUSTING BACK IN THE DAY—JOUSTS OF PEACE.
JOUSTING BACK IN THE DAY—JOUSTS OF PEACE.. For my birthday, Nick gave me THE TIME TRAVELER’S GUIDE TO MEDIEVAL ENGLAND by Ian Mortimer. It shows that in the 1300’s there was the same split between the two versions of the sport—the violent and the less violent—as there is today. The two versions were called “jousts of peace” and “jousts of war.” The jousts of peace drew huge crowds. They were fought with capped lances and were “normally only occasionally fatal.”