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A tournament, or tourney (from Old French ''torneiement'', ''tornei'') was a chivalrous competition or mock fight in the Middle Ages and Renaissance (12th to 16th centuries). It is one of various types of hastiludes. ==Terminology== Old French ''tornement'' was in use in the 12th century, from a verb ''tornoier'', ultimately Latin ''tornare'' "to turn". The same verb also gave rise to ''tornei'' (modern English ''tourney'', modern French ''tournoi''). The French terms were adopted in English (via Anglo-Norman) by 1300. The Old French verb in origin meant "to joust, tilt", but it came to refer to the knightly tournament more generally, while ''joster'' "approach, meet" became the technical term for jousting specifically (also adopted in English before 1300). By the end of the 12th century, ''tornement'' and Latinized ''torneamentum'' had become the generic term for all kinds of knightly hastiludes or martial displays. Roger of Hoveden writing in the late 12th century defined ''torneamentum'' as "military exercises carried out, not in the knight's spirit of hostility (''nullo interveniente odio''), but solely for practice and the display of prowess (''pro solo exercitio, atque ostentatione virium'')."〔cited after Du Cange (''Glossarium'', 1678, s.v. 'Tourneamentum'〕 The application of the term tournament to competition in games of skill or sports in general dates to the mid 18th century. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tournament (medieval)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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