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by Monique Barb -

Although life was hard in the Middle Ages, there were opportunities for games, sports and entertainments. When the Thames froze over, Londoners skated on the ice and sometimes they made sledges of ice and slid the ice blocks across the frozen river. It was the custom on Shrove Tuesday in the twelfth century for all the young men of London to 'go out into the fields to play at a well known game of football'. One medieval writer recalled his childhood and could remember playi read more...

Tags: england history, entertainment, sport, middle ages, jousting

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