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| Image title: | 792.—Ancient Quintain. |
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| Source: | Knight, Charles: “Old England: A Pictorial Museum” (1845) |
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| Keywords: | sports, people, jousting, greyscale |
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The sports of the [twelfth-century] Norman lords [...] the noble students of chivalry practised military sports, of which the principal was the quintain, in which the young man tilted with his lance at a shield or Saracen elevated on a pole or spear, past which he rode at full career. This exercise was imitated by the young men who were not blessed with noble birth; a sand-bag being in that case substituted for a shield or a Saracen, and a quarter-staff for a lance (Fig. 792). (p. 215) It’s not clear to me whether an actual Saracen person is meant! At any rate, the Quintain is a device used to learn what we would now call jousting. The people shown here are wearing 18th or early 19th century costumes, including a man in a top hat, and not twelfth-century costumes, so presumably we are to understand that the quintain was still standing some four hundred years later. |
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