In the Libro de los juegos this game was named: Alqueque de Tres. There are versions in crossed lines and also boxes, but not a circular version.
It is the most recorded game among those engraved on the stones of medieval monuments, especially in sentry posts and in church cloisters. It is played with nine pieces, in fact in the Libro de los juegos it was named Alqueque de Nueve. This game descends from the ancient Nordic game called Halatafl, derived itself from Hnefatafl, and was mentioned in the Libro de los juegos as De Cercar the Liebre. The aim of the game is different for the two players, like a hunting simulation.
Tablut derived from the Viking game Hnefatafl and it was played in Northern Europe during medieval times; it is also known as Linnaeus. The game symbolizes the confrontation between two strongly different sides: the opponents are confronted with unequal weapons, according to unequal rules, so the players have a different set of pieces, movement and goals. Tables is one of the medieval versions of the Roman Tabula.
In the Libro de los juegos there are fifteen variants of this game and it is drawn in various medieval paintings and codes. This game is the most direct ancestor of the modern Backgammon , but it is played in a different and more exciting way. This board game is the sole medieval one for four players.
In the Libro de los juegos it was described as a game of the tables family. Each player chooses a colour corresponding to a season and takes a place in its sector. This board game is the sole medieval one for seven players. Each player chooses a colour corresponding to a planet and takes a place in its sector. The aim of the game is to win all the items of the other players. The Zara was the most common and popular gambling dice game in the Middle Ages; it was so in vogue to deserve a mention by Dante Alighieri too.
Rattles: Some of the recovered examples of rattles are made in terracotta. Babies and toddlers were able to play and be stimulated by the noise produced by the rattles. Marbles: Primarily produced of clay, marbles were a popular game played by children. While the rules of the game have barely changed since the Middle Ages, a medieval variation includes arches to shoot the marbles under. Hoops: Late in the Middle Ages, around the early 16th-century, images are found with children playing with hoops.
They roll the hoops with a stick as part of a race. Stilts: Images from the 14th-century show older children and adults walking on stilts. Both children and adult could play games for entertainment as well. While games for children were generally tame, games for adults focused on chance and hand-eye coordination.
Unlike sports, women and girls could participate in a majority of games. Chess: The game of chess has been popular throughout most of history with subtle changes and variations. It appears that medieval chess sets were very similar to modern sets, though some versions feature crudely carved figures. Dice: Dice games have been used in divination games and gambling games.
Games of chance were popular for individuals in all social classes for gambling. Card Games: There is evidence of decks of cards surviving beyond the Middle Ages, but the exact Middle ages games played have not been adequately discovered. It is probably safe to assume that some of the games were similar to more modern games.
Ring Toss: A game that could be played by all ages and both men and woman was Ring Toss where small rings were aimed at two stakes attempting to toss more accurately than the other team or opponent. Knucklebones: This game is similar to modern-day jacks, but it was played using the knucklebones of a sheep. Like Liked by 3 people. Like Liked by 2 people. Good grief, you could have been describing a typical day in the life of a Turkish male, maybe without the danger part!
If you substitute some modern technology equivalents, I wonder if anything has changed all that much. I was not surprised to see that you listed quite a few games that still exist today — I love this! My family is having a reunion this summer with many coming all the way from Sweden. It is taking place on the family farm that was homesteaded in Maybe our relatives from Sweden still play these games.
It will be interesting. Some were played somewhat like Italian bocce. They usually required knocking opponents balls away from a target ball or peg.
Whoever got closest to the target won. Some used pegs slightly driven into the ground —just deep enough to stand up but not enough to be hard to bowl over. Hard, flat clay courts would allow for flat-bottomed pins. The ones I saw were convex in shape, not the kind popular in American bowling.
Some used delineated lanes. Some had courts. Many variations existed in medieval times. Many still exist in villages throughout Europe. Many games used nine or ten pins. But a lot depended upon what the contestants or community preferred. Balls could be wood, stone, or possibly other materials.
Heavy woods also tended to stay erect better on windy days. I suspect that mostly it was a case of using what was to hand, especially at the lower end of the social scale. I had no idea that there were multiple forms of bowling back then. It sounds like it was an entertaining way to pass your time.
How did you learn so much about this topic? They had books about the history of bowling in their home. While the kids watched cartoons, I read about bowling. Wish I could read them again! They were put out by bowling equipment companies. Bowling was enjoyed by the ancient Egyptians. Forms of it spread through the Mediterranean.
But I also suspect bowling developed elsewhere without knowledge of the earlier forms. The oldest bowling green in the world is in my town.
It goes back further than , from which the oldest surviving record of its existence dates. Great ways to let off steam! Frankly, I think they had a great deal more fun than we do today! None of my sources mentioned horse racing, but I suppose it must have happened. They were violent times. As a kid, I remember playing a lot of games with my friends which were said to have their roots in the middle ages. We also spent an enormous amount of time making sort-of crossbows and long bows which never worked very well and building forts.
And would certainly have kept us very fit, and taught us how to compete co-operatively. I hope children are still playing versions of the games I used to play in the playground. We had different games for the playground — they were often gender specific.
Now I think back it was funny, because the Catholic kids joined in. What little walking remnants of history we were. Now, back to medieval aristocratic women and their leisure. The question about sewing is interesting. What they were doing was purely for decoration, but the same was true of the people who painted pictures on the church and castle walls.
There must have been a dividing line between sewing recreation and sewing as work, as there is today between someone who makes their own clothes and home and someone who sits at a sewing machine all day and everyday making clothes to be sold in shops.
I would suspect that the basic construction of say, a gown, would be in the hands of semptresses. That many had patterns so beautiful that they appeared embroidered must have been common, but trust the medieval woman to add more! I have absolutely no talent in such areas, which increases my appreciation for such arts!
It is the deconstruction of the precious parts of these cloths that puzzles me. At some point, the cloth would be too frayed, faded or stained for elite use. There was not an infinite supply of precious materials.
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