>Let's allow our best soldiers and even our finest noblemen

>>3220893
Soldiers were the niggers of Medieval Europe.

If you didn't give those murderhobos an avenue for violence and booty, they'd fuck off to somewhere else and then you'll have no soldiers.

>>3220893
You mean tournaments? Early tournaments were not a spectacle. Although that is what they eventually became tournaments in the early stages was a place where nobility and rich people could get training in warfare, before actually going out into warfare. They were much more violent as they only existed as work experience.

If you can't survive a tournament, how are you going to survive a real war?

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>>3220893
Bitches dig it, and if there are no wars going on, your 20+ years of martial training are a bit pointless.

>>3220893
>not risking you life to win a tourney so you can court the fine noblelady and add another title to your name to impress her father

>>3220893

Yeah, let people get used to fighting in a controlled, organised way, with significantly reduced chances of them being killed? What a stupid idea.

it wasnt that violent, even in real battle it was better to capture a nobleman for ransom

just the usual americanization of cultures, everything has to be brutal and bloody and *EXPLOSION*, *FLASHY SLOWMOTION CUT*
YOU WOULDNT WANA BE IN THE ARENA WHEN SIR FARTALOT SWINGS HIS HAMMER

>>3221090
So it was just to avoid >tfw no gf

>>3222085
you were a noble so you had an army of peasant and servant girls dreaming about your cock unless you were a vile midget torturing ppl

>>3221090
>caring about some bitchy old hag instead of shagging your youngest maid

Tournaments were religiously discouraged, the popes issued several decrees saying anybody who died in one automatically went straight to hell. People still did them though, similar to how the Gladiators held on for several centuries despite Christian disapproval in Rome.

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>>3222076
>just the usual americanization of cultures
just the usual paranoia over the USA

it's not like the legend of King Arthur, The Accursed Kings, the Song of Roland, Hamlet, so on and so forth were all written by Americans.

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>>3220893
They didn't have internet back then and they needed a way to pass the time.

>>3220893
The finest soldiers were not the guys participating in tourneys, by and large. Noblemen who fancied themselves soldiers fought in tourneys, not the professional soldiers who were the creme of the crop, so to speak. And early tournaments, when death was a real possibility, for all their popularity, were not particularly favored by kings. However, 1) tournaments were never about killing your opponent, they were about capturing him for ransom and/or his horses, 2) by the 14th century, tournaments and specifically jousts were made really quite safe.