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 all the vice versa, popularly honestly honor the King and Bishop of the fools, represent the paintings of the unbroken hell and amuse the tournaments of monkeys chained in the 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 the launches-sustainers. We are facing brilliant chivalrous cavalcades and processions of animals and demons, masks of animals and demons, playing all kinds of instruments, musicians, shouting jester, demonstrate tricks and acrobats, go through the ecvilibrists, give performances 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