{"id":2650,"date":"2012-08-22T18:20:52","date_gmt":"2012-08-22T18:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnshepherd.me.uk\/?p=2650"},"modified":"2012-08-22T18:20:52","modified_gmt":"2012-08-22T18:20:52","slug":"thing-of-the-week-joust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnshepherd.me.uk\/?p=2650","title":{"rendered":"Thing of the week: Joust!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week we went to see the Battle of Bosworth commemorative event, on Bosworth Battlefield in Leicester. This entailed lots of battle re-enactments, falconry demonstrations, a huge medieval market, a beer tent selling the (excellent) wares of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.williamsbrosbrew.com\" target=\"_blank\">Williams Bros Brewing Co<\/a>&#8230; and more living history demonstrations than you could shake a pointy stick at.<\/p>\n<p>One of the more interesting bits was the Jousting tournament. I&#8217;ve seen various things in the past that <em>claimed<\/em> to be jousting events&#8230; but they usually end up being some kind of static-target-hitting contest, or choreographed stunt show with people falling off horses. I think this is the first time that I&#8217;ve ever seen jousting done &#8216;properly&#8217; &#8230; i.e. a contest in which the objective is to try to break your lance tip while striking your opponent on various point-scoring parts of the body. Interesting to watch and &#8212; I would assume &#8212; a very difficult \/ dangerous thing to do.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zHbkfVVtk-c\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The battlefield heritage centre has changed quite a bit since we were last there&#8230; the changes triggered in no small part &#8212; I guess &#8212; by the fact that historians have now decided that everything happened in an <em>entirely<\/em> different place, and that the <em>actual<\/em> battlefield is a couple of miles off to the south west. All the big banners (and I assume the connected &#8220;what happened here&#8221; boards &#8212; though we didn&#8217;t go and check) are gone&#8230; and the old &#8220;near this spot died King Richard III&#8221; stone has been relocated to the visitor centre courtyard, since nobody really seems to know where it should live now, and the farmer wanted his field back. It&#8217;s a bit sad, really.<\/p>\n<p>When the staff attempted to panhandle us for a copy of the (new, improved) battlefield guidebook, I was sorely tempted to point out that the one they sold us a few years ago turned out to be entirely inaccurate \/ largely made up, and suggest we should be given the v2.0 release for free. Though, of course, I didn&#8217;t. Because I&#8217;m far too nice \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Good day out though. (Albeit helped by the surfeit of hot weather, &#8220;Seven Giraffes&#8221; Cask IPA, and ice-cream). I thoroughly enjoyed it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week we went to see the Battle of Bosworth commemorative event, on Bosworth Battlefield in Leicester. 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