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Rachel Member |
posted 03-22-2001 12:47 PM
what did the people who lived in castles do in their spare time?? |
Philip Davis unregistered |
posted 03-23-2001 01:41 AM
Many people of different status lived in castles so there is no simple answer to this. For the top people hunting was by far the most popular pastime. Many castles are built just to be well placed for good hunting grounds. Hunting could be with hounds or with hawks and was for deer, boar and birds. Much land was forest. This was not necessarily woodland but land covered by special laws to protect the game and the cover. A lot of the Magna Carta is about forest law in fact. Otherwise and more generally a variety of board games were played chess, tabula (of form of backgammon) and nine mans morris are a few (see also Medieval Games a recent topic) ------------------ Visit Castellarium Philippis |
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