Medieval life
The Middle-Ages was not only sad and hard, well for some it was. Indeed they also had holidays, and played games like chess or more physical games. If you’d like to know more, well then keep on reading!

Games and entertainment
When the hard working people from the middle ages could allow themselves a break, they liked to play games. A lot of the pople from back then liked to play chess. They didn't only played the classic chess, because if they would play a simpler version they played with dice. Dice were easy to carry around and dice chess were even played among the clergy. Children often played games like blind's mans bluff, prisoner's base, furthermore they wrestled , swam and fished, or play a game that was a cross between handball and tennis.
The Medieval knight's practiced gymnastics and running foot races.
If the castle would allowed it, the villagers would go for hunting in the sourrounding forests, in fact Hawks were trained to hunt game birds, and every castle had a falconer.

Holidays and Celebartions.
Just like nowadays there were holidays and celebrations in the middle ages.
Christmas was the most important celebration and indeed the longest vacation was in the christmas period.
The two week period from Christmas eve to the Twelth Day (6th January) was the longest vacations for the workers. Christmas was a time for exchanging gifts. The servants gave the lord of the castle eggs, and in exchange the lord provide his servants with dinner, also the lord would give the workers bonuses like food, drink, clothing, drink and firewood.
In May the villagers would ventour into the forests to find wildplowers and other greenery for their homes ti usher in May and hope for a fertile season.
In november they would slaughter the animals, because the food would be to scarce for the animals and that's why november was called ”blood month”. When the animals were slaughtered, the meat was smoked, salted and cured for consumption during the long winter ahed, but in addition to this november began with ”All Hallows Day” (called Halloween today), followed by St. Martins Day (11th November).

Tournament and jousts
Medievel warfare produced entertainment iin the form of battles, more known as tournaments. Tournament's was invented in the eleventh century by Geofroyede de Preuilly, in fact the tournament's were not very popular in England, exept during the time of Edward the III.
The just, was liked by a lot of people in England in the middle ages. It was a small-scale tournament, and was popular from the fourtheenth century. The joust was a one-to-one combat with any kind of weapon carried out on horseback or on foot, and jousts were often the opening for a tournament.

Even though they had a tough life in the middle ages, they also enjoyed the holidays and entertainment in the middle ages.