People in Middle Ages for entertainment did feasts, banquets, jousts, and tournaments, mystery plays, fairs, games, and sports, hunting, hawking, and animal entertainment. They enjoyed many holidays like Christmas, Easter, and May Day. There were also many other stuff thy enjoyed to do to. They liked to play table games like chess and backgammon. They also like to play many other strategy games like Alquerques, the Philosophers Game, and Fox and Geese. There were also dice games like Knucklebones. Which was an early game of dice. They also played other games like 9 Men's Morris, Shovelboard, and Hazard. They also had outdoor entertainment. Like archery, bowls, colf, gameball, hammer throwing, hurling, horseshoes, quarters, skittles, stoolball, wrestling.
Your probably wondering who did all of this entertainment. Well they had a Jester. A professional clown employed to entertain the king or the nobles. They were also called fools or buffoons. They did play a minor role in the Middle Ages, but the did lighten up the entertainment. Jesters weren't the only entertainers. There were Troubadours. Troubadours were a school of poets who flourished 11th century to the 13th century. They also invented kind, lyrical poetry characterized by rhyme, romance, and strain. There were many more musicians by Troubadours were the most popular. Finally there were Minstrels. They were a group of man who earned a living by the arts of poetry and music, sang verses, and played a lute, harp, or any other instrument.
Your probably wondering who did all of this entertainment. Well they had a Jester. A professional clown employed to entertain the king or the nobles. They were also called fools or buffoons. They did play a minor role in the Middle Ages, but the did lighten up the entertainment. Jesters weren't the only entertainers. There were Troubadours. Troubadours were a school of poets who flourished 11th century to the 13th century. They also invented kind, lyrical poetry characterized by rhyme, romance, and strain. There were many more musicians by Troubadours were the most popular. Finally there were Minstrels. They were a group of man who earned a living by the arts of poetry and music, sang verses, and played a lute, harp, or any other instrument.