1. DO NOW: Fill out the fourth row of your Middle Ages Daily Life Scales
HOMEWORK
Leisure Questions
Daily Life & Decline Test 5/26
DO NOW: Fill out the fourth row of your Middle Ages Daily Life Scales

2. Leisure and Entertainment

3. Leisure and Entertainment
Although times were tough, many people had time for fun and still enjoy the games we still play today
Toys such as dolls, wooden swords, and hobbyhorses were popular as were games such as chess, backgammon, cards, checkers, and lawn bowling

4. Leisure and Entertainment
While these games were played, the Church frowned upon them as well as dancing or betting on dice
Townspeople also celebrated festivals and activities such as animal baiting were popular

5. Leisure and Entertainment
Fairs were always crowded and jugglers, minstrels, dancers, and clowns would entertain the crowds
Guild members would parade the streets in costumes and carry banners

6. Leisure and Entertainment
Guild members would perform mystery plays where they acted out stories from the Bible
They also performed miracle plays which would dramatize the lives of saints, but the Church also eventually disapproved of both these plays