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Let Me Entertain You: Amusements in Medieval Towns

6/29/2013

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Whether they got a day off from working at their trade or had so much money they could pay people to entertain them, everyone within the town walls wanted to have a little fun. Listen today to find out what occupants of medieval European towns did to shake off their troubles and have a good time.

Podcaster: Christine

Further Reading 

The rules of hazard and other games: The Gaming Table, by Andrew Steinmetz.

 William J. Baker, “Medieval People at Play,” in Sports in the Western World. (Totowa, New Jersey: Rowman and Littlefield, 1982) pp: 42-56.

John Marshall Carter,  Sports and Pastimes of the Middle Ages. (Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 1988)

Albert Compton Reeves, Pleasures and Pastimes in Medieval England. (Stroud, Gloustershire: Alan Sutton Publishers, 1995)

Sally Wilkins, Sports and Games of Medieval Cultures. (Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2002)

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Music: "Evening Melodrama" by Kevin MacLeod (www.incompetech.com)
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