CartCart (0)
Translation  Dictionary  Tools
Free Online Dictionary
hastilude
Babylon English English dictionaryDownload this dictionary
hastilude
n. spear game, medieval tournament for knights to practice their fighting skills

Wikipedia English The Free EncyclopediaDownload this dictionary
Hastilude
Hastilude is a generic term used in the Middle Ages to refer to many kinds of martial games. The word comes from the Latin hastiludium, literally "lance game"'. By the 14th century, the term usually excluded tournaments and was used to describe the other games collectively; this seems to have coincided with the increasing preference for ritualistic and individualistic games over the traditional mêlée style.

See more at Wikipedia.org...


© This article uses material from Wikipedia® and is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License and under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License
The Knighthood | Chivalry | Tournaments Arms | Armour DictionaryDownload this dictionary
Hastilude
Literally a ‘spear game’. Often used as a generic form for tournaments , or a "mêlée " form where knights fought as integrated groups called conroi to practice their unit skills and to capture their opponents and thus capture their horses and equipment. Sir William Marshal was perhaps the pre-eminent tourneyer in the day of the hastilude, but after his death in the early 13th century the tournament became more and more regulated, becoming a very structured pageant by the 16th century when Henry VIII and Françis I of France held the Field of the Cloth of Gold, C. 1515.

Babylon English-NorwegianDownload this dictionary
hastilude
s. hastilude, lansekamp, middelaldersk ridderturnering

Babylon English-DanishDownload this dictionary
hastilude
n. lansekamp, middelalderlig turnering for riddere så de kunne øve sig i deres færdigheder

| hastilude in Italian | hastilude in Spanish | hastilude in Dutch | hastilude in German | hastilude in Turkish | hastilude in Hebrew | hastilude in Arabic | hastilude in Danish | hastilude in Norwegian