Medieval tilting games or quintain

Boy on rolling trestle with spear tilting at a fixed quintain (top), soldier in armour attacking a pel quintain (left) and a saracen quintain (right), and naked boys attacking a water-tub quintain (bottom), 14th century. Handcoloured lithograph by Joseph Strutt from his own Sports and Pastimes of the People of England, Chatto and Windus, London, 1876

Fixed Hobbyhorse Pastimes Quintain Saracen Strutt Tilt Trestle Turk

Features In These Collections

> Contributors > FLO