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Tournament 101: How to Host the Hottest Parties of the Medieval Period

If we could step back in time and visit the Middle Ages, one thing not to miss would certainly be the tournaments and jousts. Full of ritual, bathed in color, and often sugared with a heavy dose of elaborate pageantry, tournaments were events that catered to the bravest, fittest, and richest of society. We’re talking about a place where men actually paid for the…