What was the entertainment in the 13th century?
Answer Medieval Entertainment:
violence swords and wine etc
Well... on top of that they had the circus, dog hunts (especially hunting wild horses), and dancing.
Plague. Well, it probably wasn't very entertaining but it was pretty much everywhere! AnswerThe 13th century was one of the most exciting in the history of entertainment, or at least I think so. And indeed the answer above is not incorrect. Tournaments with jousting, archery contests, merry drinking at weddings and other celebrations, hunting, hawking, and so on were there, but there was more, also.
The musical and poetic entertainment 13th century was about courtly love, troubadours, minstrels, minnesingers, who sang and played for the people, high and low, across Europe. They sang about King Arthur and Guinevere, Lancelot, Sir Gawain, Galahad. These are names that have not been forgotten. Imagine hearing about them for the first time from people who sang popular music of the day.
The Niebelunglied was new in the 13th century. People like Walter von der Vogelweide and Wolfram von Eschenbach were writing music and poetry. And Dante was entertaining us with visions of Hell.
The theater was moving away from purely liturgical themes and purely moralizing to drama of "manners," meaning secular theater. The musical comedy, Jeu de Robin et Marion, by Adam de la Halle, dates from this time.
The entertainment of the 13th century had something that earlier entertainment of the Middle Ages was lacking by comparison, which was new and exciting material - lots of it.
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