PRESENTATION OUTLINE
JOUSTING BY TRAVIS AND EVAN
JOUSTING YOU KNOCK YOUR OPPONENT OFF HIS HORSE
JOUSTING EMERGED IN THE HIGH MIDDLE AGES BASED ON THE MILITARY USE OF THE LANCE BY HEAVY CAVALRY.
THERE IS ALSO JOUSTING TOURNEMENTS.
POPULAR WITH THE NOBILITY BOTH IN ENGLAND AND GERMANY THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE OF THE 16TH CENTURY
THE JOUST BECAME AN ICONIC CHARACTERISTIC OF THE KNIGHT IN ROMANTIC MEDIEVALISM
THE TERM JOUST IS DERIVED FROM THE LATE LATIN TERM IUXTARE WHICH MEANS TO APPROACH OR TO MEET.
THE MOVIE "A KNIGHT'S TAIL" IS ABOUT JOUSTING
JOUSTING WAS DISCONTINUED IN FAVOUR OF OTHER EQUESTRIAN SPORTS IN THE 17TH CENTURY
There has been a limited revival of jousting reenactment since the 1970s.
