The history of medieval entertainment

Vladislav Darkevich gathered in his book unique material about the entertainment of the Middle Ages. In the rampant world of carnivals, where everything is on the contrary, popularly honestly honor the King and Bishop of the fools, represent paintings of the non -merciful Hell and amuse the tournaments of monkeys chained in armor. Someone plays a "frog in the middle", someone in a “bug”, someone leaned over a chessboard, and someone in excitement loses the last money to runks-seniority. We are faced with brilliant chivalrous cavalcades and processions of animals and demons, masks of animals and demons, playing all kinds of instruments, musicians are playing, gymnasts and acrobats shout, they go through the equalibrists, puppeteers, magicians and diligents of wild animals ... The multifaceted culture of medieval amusements appears In the book of Vladislav Darkevich in all her brilliance.
Vladislav Darkevich (1935-2016) - Doctor of Historical Sciences, leading researcher at the Department of Medieval Archeology of the Institute of Archeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences