High Middle Ages · Middle East · Culture
1288
Acre's last tournaments held
1288
The surviving crusader nobility of Acre held a last flowering of chivalric tournaments, with troubadours competing and knights running at the ring. Contemporary letters describe a bright, doomed sociability a few years before Mamluk siege engines ended the city forever. The tournaments were deliberately extravagant, a defiant celebration of a way of life that everyone present must have known was about to end.
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.